Good... Federal Judge OKs Global Warming Lawsuit

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http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0825-09.htm

Published on Thursday, August 25, 2005 by the Associated Press

Federal Judge OKs Global Warming Lawsuit

By David Kravets

A federal judge here said environmental groups and four U.S. cities can sue federal development agencies on allegations the overseas projects they financially back contribute to global warming.
The decision Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White is the first to say that groups alleging global warming have a right to sue.

"This is the first decision in the country to say that climate change causes sufficient injury to give a plaintiff standing, to open the courthouse door," said Ronald Shems, a Vermont attorney representing Friends of the Earth.

That group, in addition to Greenpeace and the cities of Boulder, Colo., Santa Monica, Oakland and Arcata, Calif., sued Overseas Private Investment Corp. and the Export-Import Bank of the United States. Those government agencies provide loans and insure billions of dollars of U.S. investors' money for development projects overseas. Many of the projects are power plants that emit greenhouses gases that the groups allege cause global warming.


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1. too bad our Fed. gov has no ethics and these groups have to spend

time and money in the courts!!