J. Matt

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Navahine v. Hawai‘i DOT Climate Suite

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Location: Honolulu

Nationality: USA

Biography: J. Matt is a documentary photographer and feature-writer from, and based in, Honolulu whose work principally focuses on global warming and its intersections with place, ecology, and social, political, and economic histories. Represented by ZUMA... MORE

Focus: Photographer, Photojournalist, Journalist, Writer, Reporter, Fine Art, Environment, Architecture, Science, History, Documentary, News, Photography, Journalist Investigative, Civil Rights and Social Inequality, Humanitarian, Columnist, Assignments, Teacher, Educator, Conservationist, Human Rights, Artist, Multimedia Journalist, Editing, Storyteller, Visual Artist, Climate, News Reporter, Print Journalism, Environmental Stories, Still Photographer, Landscape, Social Justice, Nature, Reportage, Visual Journalist, Visual Storyteller, Visual Storytelling

Youth climate activists assembl... HONOLULU 01/26/23 Honolulu USA

Youth climate activists assemble after a scheduling hearing in the Youth v. Hawaii DOT suit while a youth plaintiff addresses the assembled. The plaintiffs are alleging a breach of their constitutional right to a sustaining, healthy environment has been violated by a state DOT that favors carbon-based transportation policies in the face of widespread understanding of the dangers of such policy in the era of global warming. HONOLULU 01/26/23 Honolulu USA

BRYAN KILLIAN of D.C.-based fir... HONOLULU 01/26/23 Honolulu USA

BRYAN KILLIAN of D.C.-based firm Morgan Lewis makes notes in his effort to obligate Judge JEFFREY CRABTREE (not shown) to dismiss the Youth v. DOT suit due to the plaintiff's lack of standing while LEIAALA LEY, plaintiff's lead attorney (second from right) addresses CRABTREE. Efforts on behalf of the DOT to have the suit dismissed have failed and work to schedule the trial has begun. HONOLULU 01/26/23 Honolulu USA

Judge JEFFREY CRABTREE presidin... HONOLULU 05/25/23 Honolulu USA

Judge JEFFREY CRABTREE presiding over the Youth v. Hawaii DOT lawsuit in Hawaii State Environmental Court. Efforts on behalf of the DOT to have the suit dismissed have failed and work to schedule the trial has begun. HONOLULU 05/25/23 Honolulu USA

A plaintiff in the Youth v. Haw... HONOLULU 01/26/23 Honolulu USA

A plaintiff in the Youth v. Hawaii DOT suit speaks after the first hearing in the trial. The plaintiffs are alleging a breach of their constitutional right to a sustaining, healthy environment has been violated by a state DOT that favors carbon-based transportation policies in the face of widespread understanding of the dangers of such policy in the era of global warming. HONOLULU 01/26/23 Honolulu USA

Hawaii youth climate activists ... HONOLULU 05/25/23 Honolulu USA

Hawaii youth climate activists speak in front of the state DOT building on behalf of the youth plaintiffs suing the DOT. The plaintiffs are alleging a breach of their constitutional right to a sustaining, healthy environment has been violated by a state DOT that favors carbon-based transportation policies in the face of widespread understanding of the dangers of such policy in the era of global warming. HONOLULU 05/25/23 Honolulu USA

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Navahine v. Hawai‘i DOT Climate Suite

Copyright J. Matt 2024

Updated Jun 2023

Location Honolulu, HI

Topics Children, Climate Change, Documentary, Environment, Journalism, Photography, Photojournalism, Social Justice

Summary

Fourteen young people in Hawai‘i are suing the state Department of Transportation for violating their constitutional rights to a healthy and sustainable environment alleging that the DOT's policies favor carbon-powered transportation in the face of widespread evidence that burning carbon fuels has caused global warming and increases the already substantial threat young people face in the future as a consequence.

MORE OF MY SOCIETY OF ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNALISTS' SOCIAL MEDIA TAKEOVER:
I'm also reporting on the suit filed by Our Children's Trust and EarthJustice on behalf of 14 young people suing the Hawai‘i State DOT for violating their constitutional rights to a sustaining, healthy environment. This will be the 2nd such suit to go to trial after Held v. Montana, beginning 06/12/23. These suits intend to set national precedents and force adults in power; whether elected, bureaucratic, or economic, set policy accounting for long-term sustainability and children's futures rather than near-term goals that don't align with the urgency the world of science is trumpeting when it comes to global warming's procession and national response to it.

Apr 6, 2023

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