Court Order Denying Defendant's Motion for Summary Judgment

In this Order, Judge White ruled against the Defendants and decided that the Plaintiffs' case would not be dismissed because the Plaintiffs had legal standing based on their injuries from climate change: "projects supported by OPIC and ExIm are directly or indirectly responsible for approximately 1,911 million tons of carbon dioxide and methane emissions annually, which equals nearly eight percent of the world’s emissions and is equivalent to one third of the total carbon emissions from the United States in 2003.” This was the the first time that a federal court granted legal standing for injuries from global warming.

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