EcoWatch: Late last night, King County Superior Court Judge Hollis R. Hill issued a groundbreaking ruling in the unprecedented case of eight youth petitioners who requested that the Washington Department of Ecology write a carbon emissions rule that protects the atmosphere for their generation and those to come.
In a landmark decision, Judge Hill declared [the youths] very survival depends upon the will of their elders to act now, decisively and unequivocally, to stem the tide of global warming before...