Youth activists win ‘groundbreaking’ climate settlement in Hawaii

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Hawaii officials have announced what they called a “groundbreaking” legal settlement with a group of young climate activists, which they said will force the state’s department of transportation to move more aggressively towards a zero-emission transportation system.

Under the “historic” settlement, announced on Thursday, Hawaii officials will release a roadmap “to fully decarbonize the state’s transportation systems, taking all actions necessary to achieve zero emissions no later than 2045 for ground transportation, sea and inter-island air transportation”, Andrea Rogers, one of the attorneys representing the plantiffs in the case, said at a press conference with the governor…

Source: Apple News - Dharna Noor and Lois Beckett

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