They're right though. There is nothing in the US constitution that guarantees the right to a healthy environment.

Cool that it isn't stopping them from putting a lot of climate action in motion.

What a dumb article.

The rules in the Constitution are only relevant so far as they are within the ability of the government to provide. Outlawing slavery, the right to free speech, the right to vote, these can all be provided and protected by the government. The global climate can only be protected by ensuing that the rest of the world does not ruin the climate, in other words, the US would have to invade any country that endangers the climate for is citizens to ensure that right. This is why the Constitution does not provide he right to travel anywhere outside of US borders either.

The Constitution also explicitly states that we have rights not enumerated in the Constitution.

Good to know that nobody will be held accountable for the end of the world.

There isn't. That doesn't mean that this isn't a noble cause, but come on. There's no point in using the Constitution as the deciding factor of all that is good.

I mean...it doesn't

Who thinks it does? What a silly idea

Time for a new amendment then, bitches. Let's fucking do this.

Breaking news: Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness does not include a right to a liveable environment.

(yes I know this is from the DOI, not the constitution, and has no legal force)

Apparently right to life is not right to live

Pack it in folks, we don't have the right to live. Constitution doesn't mean shit if there is no one around to read it.

What does the constitution day about computers and cars and genetic engineering?

The constitution gotta protect guns in case the king of England invades your F250 but heaven forbid you protect the environment.

Well, technically the Justice Department is correct. Which on the other hand should not imply that the government should just keep out of it.

But the climate change was mainly caused by people and corporations, so they are the ones to blame.

The Jacobin is such a rag lol.

Biden's done more for climate policy than every President before him combined, and the DOJ is no more "his" here than it is when it prosecutes Donald Trump.

Americans, legally, do not have a constitutional right to anything regarding the climate. This makes standing on climate policy difficult (but clearly not impossible, as the article itself notes) to prove.

This isn't some "gotcha"

I feel like this is worded to be a jab at JB when it really shouldn't be. Unfortunately it is true. At best they can say people have a right to not have the government subsidise the oil industry, mining operations and other things that are directly damaging, but they can't guarantee clean air.