Chernaik v. Brown

*586Plaintiffs1 sued defendants the State of Oregon and Governor Kate Brown2 (collectively, the state) for declaratory and equitable relief related to the state's alleged failure to take sufficient steps to protect the state's *28public-trust resources from the effects of climate change. This case is before us for a second time. In the first appeal, we reversed the trial court's dismissal of the case on justiciability grounds and remanded for the trial court to determine whether plaintiffs were entitled to declarations that the atmosphere and other natural resources are trust resources that the…