The Keep It in the Ground folks are engaged in a campaign of lies and litigation designed to tie up the system in knots and impose an ideological agenda.

The “Keep It in the Ground” activists behind Juliana v. United States—the “trial of the millennium”—are also the driving forces behind the “necessity defense” trials of the “valve turners” and other eco-terrorists—the “holy grail of climate activism.”

And, both of these litigation strategies are part of a “coordinated litigation campaign” designed to “force the managed decline of fossil fuels.”

The legal principle at the heart of both of these litigation strategies is the “public trust doctrine,” which maintains that the government has the responsibility to “hold in trust for public use some resources such as shoreline between the high and low tide lines, regardless of private property ownership.”

In Juliana v. United States—the lawsuit brought by Our Children’s Trust on behalf of a group of young people against the White House and several federal government agencies—the plaintiffs allege that the defendants “deliberately allow[ed] atmospheric CO2 concentrations to escalate to levels unprecedented in human history,” thereby causing “substantial impairment and alienation of their public trust resources.”

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https://naturalgasnow.org/keep-ground-strategy-lies-junk-lawsuits/