Your Legal Right to a Healthy Environment: Juliana Redux
5 min readJun 20, 2023
In 2015 21 youths between the ages of eight and 17 asked a federal court to find that they have a constitutionally protected right to a healthy and su-stainable environment. In the interim, more than a few of the 21 youths are now 20-somethings. They’ve yet to have their day in court.
But it’s all about to change — twice over. First, a bit of background on the cases…