Court Dismisses Kivalina Village GHG Case on Jurisdictional Grounds
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California today issued an Order granting the Defendants’ motions to dismiss for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. Rejecting the approach taken by the Second Circuit in Connecticut v. AEP, the Kivalina Village court ruled that the claims presented by plaintiffs raised non-justiciable political questions and that the plaintiffs lacked standing to sue.
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