"The Supreme Court just allowed a major climate lawsuit to go ahead", 2 Nov 2018

...[T]he Supreme Court cleared the way for Juliana v. US, a major lawsuit filed by young people against the US government for failing to limit the effects of climate change.  The case may now go to trial in a lower court after the Supreme Court’s extremely unusual move last month to temporarily block the proceeding...[L]ate last month, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts issued a temporary stay of the case to consider a request from the Justice Department for a stay to halt the case.  The Supreme Court’s temporary stay sent the plaintiffs scrambling to put together a brief in time to keep the case moving forward on schedule.  On Friday, the court denied the government’s request for a stay...The Supreme Court also suggested that a federal appeals court should consider appeals on other grounds before the case heads to trial in district court...

Now the federal government will head to court to argue that there is no constitutional right to an environment free of climate change and that the children don’t have standing to make such a claim.  But both sides agree that the case is not a question of the science...