Residents in showed mixed feelings about Biden’s visit and his response to the Maui wildfires.
“As a heat wave scorched America with record-breaking temperatures this June, the Biden administration attempted to block a landmark climate lawsuit by declaring that “there is no constitutional right to a stable climate system,” according to court records reviewed by the Lever.
The assertion in Juliana v. United States — which echoed both the Donald Trump and Barack Obama administrations’ legal claims in the same long-running case — was part of the Justice Department’s latest attempt to halt the suit brought by children who assert that the Constitution requires the federal government to maintain a climate that supports human life.”