The Environmental Protection Agency escaped a lawsuit over several deleted climate mapping websites after a federal judge said multiple climate organizations didn’t prove how they were harmed by this decision.
The Sierra Club, Union of Concerned Scientists, and other groups didn’t have standing to challenge the decision because the tools going offline didn’t impair their ability to educate the public about environmental initiatives, the US District Court for the District of Columbia said while dismissing their lawsuit Wednesday.
“An organizational plaintiff has no legal right to the information sought nor any entitlement to receive that information in a particular form …