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Texas Judge Rules that Atmosphere is Protected Under the Public Trust Doctrine
Source: Washington Post | July 11, 2012Our partners at the Trust iMatter campaign have made the argument that the atmosphere is a public trust - entrusted to the federal government for its preservation and protection. The judge hearing the case in Texas agreed.
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New Mexico Allows Lawsuit to Protect Climate as Public Trust to Continue
Source: Courting Climate Change in New Mexico | July 9, 2012A judge in New Mexico has agreed to allow a case brought by youth plaintiffs against the state to enact scientifically-viable climate recovery plans to continue. This is the second state (after Texas) to rule to allow the case to continue. These lawsuits are part of the advocacy of our partners at the iMatter TRUST campaign .
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Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, WITNESS Documentary Subject , Receives Earth Saver Award
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Teen Perserveres After Her Petition to Iowa's Environmental Protection Agency is Rejected
Source: Citizen Action Monitor | May 16, 2012Glori Dei Filippone, the 13-year-old from Des Moines, is part of the iMatter movement to hold U.S. state and federal governments accountable for implementing plans to restore a clean environment.
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Judge Deliberates on Whether to Save Earth's Atmosphere
Source: OpEdNews.com | May 11, 2012Olson’s co-counsel Philip Gregory brought to Friday’s hearing something that was otherwise missing in hours of technical debate: honest passion. Gregory made a moral as much as a legal case on behalf of the rights of the plaintiffs, a row of several teenagers seated in the front row of the courtroom.
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U.S. Government Not Doing Enough to Curb Climate Change
Source: ethnoblog.newamericamedia.org | May 11, 2012The author, Zoe Johnson, is an 11th grader at The Urban School of San Francisco. She is a member of the iMatter movement and a Plaintiff in Alec v. Jackson, which advocates have dubbed the “Atmospheric Trust Litigation.”
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Montana Newspaper Covers the iMatter Climate Change Legal Case
Source: Bozeman Daily Chronicle | May 4, 2012The article "Montana attorney, student lead climate change lawsuits" features John Thiebes who was the subject of this iMatter Trust video.
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TRUST Arizona Makes Favorite Climate Video List
Source: Tck Tck Tck | May 4, 2012TRUST Arizona, one in the series of videos on young people fighting climate change in the U.S. makes the favorite climate change videos on the global campaigning website TckTckTck.
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NASDAQ Highlights iMatter Campaign (Again!) and Jaime Lynn Butler's Story
Source: NASDAQ | April 30, 2012 -
Jaime Lynn Butler’s Struggle to Protect the Environment
Source: FatCat Video | April 29, 2012FatCat Video profiles the Arizona youth plaintiff in the Atmospheric Trust Litigation, part of the iMatter Campaign.
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