No Rights to a Healthful Environment: Children Warrant Class Standing to Inhibit Climate Change Related Harm

Current laws in the United States stand at odds with children’s interests in a clean and healthful environment. Children deserve a healthful environment because of their constitutional right to life. This Article will analyze why courts have denied children’s right to a healthful environment. State and federal Courts have found that the environmental rights of children are a political question and, therefore, that children do not have standing to sue under the theory that they have a right to a healthy climate. This Article suggests that the courts are the best area of law for redressability for children affected by their environment and that children should have standing to sue.