Young Americans demand court halt Trump's biggest rollbacks of pollution protections

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1. Eva v Goliath: the 20-year-old climate activist taking on Trump and the fossil fuel industry

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/may/20/eva-lighthiser-trump-climate

Dharna Noor in Livingston, Montana, with photographs by Will Warasila
Wed 20 May 2026 14.00 BST

Eva Lighthiser was at a dorm party on her Colorado college campus last month when she had to call it an early night.

“I said, ‘Hey, I’ve got to go to bed, I’m flying out to Portland tomorrow,’ and then of course follow-up questions get raised,” she said. “I’m like, ‘Well, it’s a lot to explain.’”

When the 20-year-old climate activist isn’t deciding her major – she is leaning toward environmental studies – she is preparing testimony for her lawsuit against the US president, Lighthiser v Trump. She and 22 other young Americans are accusing the US federal government of violating their constitutional rights by passing executive orders boosting planet-warming fossil fuels.

Even though a court dismissed Lighthiser v Trump in the fall, Lighthiser and her fellow plaintiffs went to Portland, Oregon, in April to push for it to be reinstated.

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