Fwd: Court hearing on Monday, Oct. 28, 2019

[Peter Nightingale]

Please share. Thanks,
—Peter

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Subject:	Court hearing on Monday, Oct. 28, 2019
Date:	Fri, 25 Oct 2019 00:17:56 +0000 (UTC)
From:	Nature's Trust Rhode Island via ActionNetwork.org <in...@sg.actionnetwork.org>
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Dear All, This is to remind you of the court hearing this Monday, October 28, 2019, at 9:30AM in the Licht Judicial Complex, 250 Benefit Street Providence, RI 02903, Courtroom 16. The hearing was originally scheduled for last August 29, but, because Associate Justice Melissa A. Long used the occasion to recuse herself, it didn't happen. Associate Justice Melissa Darigan has since taken her place. We had asked the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) to supply information that would allow the court to resolve this case without having to read our entire science compendium. Thus far, DEM has not responded meaningfully to our request. We therefore asked the court to compel DEM to do so; DEM responded by objecting. We hope that the court will rule in our favor this Monday. (For further details see items VIII.1-5 of the summary of the case.) In the 14 months that have passed since we filed our petition, DEM has only caused delay. Meanwhile, climate scientists warn, again and again, that records are being broken faster than the climate models had predicted. Unfortunately, by now even that is old news. Indeed, "outpacing projections" appears more than ten times in our petition to DEM, as its index shows. Humanity has about a decade to get its climate act together and more than a year of inaction has passed since the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) called for "large, immediate, and unprecedented global efforts" to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This cannot stand. We hope that you'll be able to make it on Monday, —Peter Nightingale for Nature's Trust Rhode Island Sent via Action Network, a free online toolset anyone can use to organize. Click here to sign up and get started building an email list and creating online actions today. Action Network is an open platform that empowers individuals and groups to organize for progressive causes. We encourage responsible activism, and do not support using the platform to take unlawful or other improper action. We do not control or endorse the conduct of users and make no representations of any kind about them. You can unsubscribe or update your email address or change your name and address by changing your subscription preferences here.

[Peter Nightingale]

On 10/25/19 1:04 AM, Roberts, J. Timmons wrote:

Hi Peter, what will actually happen at this?

Unless the judge kicks the can down the road, she will rule in for or against our motion to compel DEM to finally produce a meaningful response to our discovery requests so that the court can decide the case without having to read all the hundreds of pages that the parties have submitted. That's what the discovery requests filed in February were supposed to accomplish. For more details see https://naturestrustri.org/legal-action/#summary

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Peter Nightingale
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