This appendix lists the youth plaintiffs in Juliana v. United States in the order in which they appear as litigants in their lawsuit against the federal government. These were their allegations and ages as of September 10, 2015, the date of their first amended complaint, the most complete public account of their claims. Details of how each plaintiff is specifically harmed by the impacts of climate change have been edited for brevity. Additional evidence and testimony have since been brought forth over the course of their litigation.
KELSEY CASCADIA ROSE JULIANA
Age: 19
Hometown: Eugene, Oregon
Litigating harms: To the freshwaters of Oregon for drinking, hygiene, and recreation. To food from marine animals. To food grown by small farmers in the Willamette Valley and in her family’s garden. To snowpack for recreation. To participation in summer sports because of rising temperatures, algal blooms, and worsening wildfires. To her psychological well-being because she understands the impacts that will occur in her lifetime. To shared experiences with her future children.
XIUHTEZCATL TONATIUH MARTINEZ
Age: 15
Hometown: Boulder, Colorado
Litigating harms: To his spiritual and cultural practices, emotional and mental well-being because of impacts to forests. To his personal safety, property, and recreational interests through increased frequency and intensity of wildfires, drought, and declining snowpack. To the availability of water. To air and water quality and health as a result of fossil fuel exploitation in Colorado and planned export of fossil fuels from Colorado.
ALEX LOZNAK
Age: 18
Hometown: Kellogg, Oregon
Litigating harms: To his family farm from drought, rising temperatures, migration of forest species, and increased wildfire risk. To fish in local rivers. To water bodies and forests traversed by the proposed Pacific Connector Natural Gas Pipeline. To wildlife, including deer, elk, wild turkeys, and seafood, upon which his family depends for food. To his ability to raise children on his farm. To his allergies and asthma from worsening pollen. To snowpack and glaciers for recreation.
JACOB LEBEL
Age: 18
Hometown: Roseburg, Oregon
Litigating harms: To the use and enjoyment of his farm because of dwindling water supply, rising temperatures, and increased wildfire risk. To his career through harms to his farm. To his family’s financial health from investments in irrigation systems to contend with drought and from impacts to conifer forests that they manage for financial benefit. To his spiritual practice and well-being through outdoor recreation. To snowpack and oceans for recreation. To seafood that he eats. To the aesthetic and spiritual enjoyment of his property and increased risk of explosions and wildfire from the proposed Pacific Connector Natural Gas Pipeline.
ZEALAND BELL
Age: 11
Hometown: Eugene, Oregon
Litigating harms: To recreation in the Oregon outdoors and on Oregon’s river system because of reduced water levels and increased temperatures. To his ability to play sports because of increased temperatures. To his allergies from worsening pollen. To his family’s financial health because of lost seasonal income from ski resorts. To recreation because of loss of snowpack. To drinking water in Eugene, which comes from snowpack. To coastal recreation and to seafood.
AVERY MCRAE
Age: 10
Hometown: Eugene, Oregon
Litigating harms: To recreation because of harms to nature and wildlife from drought, warmer temperatures, decreasing water levels, worsening forest fires, and algal blooms. To her allergies from worsening pollen. To vacation opportunities from beetle kill and associated wildlife impacts. To winter recreation from loss of snowpack, harms to beaches and oceans, and to seafood.
SAHARA VALENTINE
Age: 11
Hometown: Eugene, Oregon
Litigating harms: To water levels on the Mohawk River, where her grandparents live. To freshwater resources and beaches for recreation. To her health due to asthma because of worsening pollen and decreasing air quality because of wildfires. To snowpack for winter recreation and drinking water.
KIRAN ISAAC OOMMEN
Age: 18
Hometown: Eugene, Oregon
Litigating harms: To outdoor recreation because of decreased water levels and rising temperatures. To his diet through impacts to produce and seafood. To snowpack for outdoor recreation. To oceans and beaches for recreation. To his health because of worsening allergies and decreasing air quality because of wildfires. To the Florida Keys, where he visits family.
TIA MARIE HATTON
Age: 18
Hometown: Bend, Oregon
Litigating harms: To her ability to compete as a Nordic skier. To outdoor recreation as a result of drought, rising temperatures, and forest fires. To her psychological health because of the destruction of the wilderness around her home. To beach communities and mountains for recreation.
ISAAC VERGUN
Age: 13
Hometown: Beaverton, Oregon
Litigating harms: To the trees in his backyard, which died because of drought. To recreation and ecosystems because of drought, wildfire, and declining water flow. To snowpack for recreation, exercise, and emotional and spiritual benefits. To his health due to worsening asthma from increased pollen counts and from smoke from wildfires. To his ability to play sports because of rising temperatures.
MIKO VERGUN
Age: 14
Hometown: Beaverton, Oregon
Litigating harms: To the Marshall Islands, her place of birth, because of sea level rise. To recreation because of declining water levels and heat waves. To the fish, ocean life, and seafood on which she depends.
HAZEL VAN UMMERSEN
Age: 11
Hometown: Eugene, Oregon
Litigating harms: To recreation because of increased temperatures, low water levels, and abnormal seasonal variations. To the Oregon coast for recreation. To her future ability to enjoy activities that were once important aspects of her childhood. To seafood. To declining snowpack for recreation and for drinking water. To her health due to episodes of heat exhaustion.
SOPHIE KIVLEHAN
Age: 16
Hometown: Allentown, Pennsylvania
Litigating harms: To her education because of missed school due to extreme weather events. To her home because of hailstorms and floods. To participation in summer sports because of rising temperatures. To her future opportunities because of rising sea levels. To her ability to work, support herself, and begin a professional career while the nation’s coastal economic hubs succumb to sea level rise. To her ability to grow food. To her health because of pollen allergies, extreme weather events, and intense heat. To the fabric of civilization and all living things.
JAIME BUTLER
Age: 14
Hometown: Flagstaff, Arizona
Litigating harms: To the Navajo Nation because of water scarcity. To her family’s stability and financial well-being because of water scarcity and the cost of water. To her Navajo family because of the possibility of displacement. To her spiritual practice because of her diminishing ability to participate in land-based ceremonies. To the Kaibab National Forest because of pine beetle damage and escalating fire risk. To her ability to grow food. To her health because of worsening allergies. To her ability to preserve her cultural traditions and way of life into the future.
JOURNEY ZEPHIER
Age: 15
Hometown: Kapa’a, Kaua’i, Hawaii
Litigating harms: To his ability to farm, drum, fire dance, perform Halau Hula O Leilani, and recreate, walk along, and bike along the ocean because of threats to the Hawaiian Islands. To his food security because of ocean impacts and sea level rise. To his health, safety, cultural practice, and recreational interests because of sea level rise, flooding, storms, and other risks to the Hawaiian Islands. To his emotional well-being because of these risks. To the water supply, agricultural conditions, and thus his ability to remain in Kaua’i.
VIC BARRETT
Age: 16
Hometown: White Plains, New York
Litigating harms: To his emotional well-being because of the increase in superstorms in the Northeast. To his health because of rising summer temperatures, which limit outdoor recreation, and because of worsening pollen allergies. To his home because of rising sea levels and more frequent storm surges.
NATHANIEL BARING
Age: 15
Hometown: Ester, Alaska
Litigating harms: To his psychological well-being from witnessing climate change and understanding the increasingly severe impacts he will experience. To his ability to ski because of reduced snowfall. To his family and community because of power outages caused by ice storms. To his health because of allergies and asthma made worse by wildfires and a reduced ability to participate in summer sports. To the fish, animals, and ecosystems on which he relies for recreation and food. To lost recreation because of the retreating of glaciers.
AJI PIPER
Age: 15
Hometown: Seattle, Washington
Litigating harms: To his health from breathing exposure to the Carlton Complex fire while in the Cascades. To recreation, diet, and aesthetics from harms to fish, shellfish, and freshwater in Puget Sound. To his psychological well-being from seeing his home harmed by climate change. To forests from pine beetles and to New Mexico, where his mother is from, because of water shortages.
LEVI DRAHEIM
Age: 8
Hometown: Satellite Beach, Florida
Litigating harms: To his ability to grow food for lack of rainfall and increasing heat. To ocean beaches for recreation. To his well-being because of his exposure to rotting seaweed, a decline in sea turtles, increasing flesh-eating bacteria, and dead fish in his recreational areas. To his community’s existence and real estate values because of sea level rise. To his health while worsening allergies lessen his time outdoors. To his psychological well-being while he fears for his future, his island’s future, and the future of the wildlife around him.
JAYDEN FOYTLIN
Age: 12
Hometown: Rayne, Louisiana
Litigating harms: To her safety and the safety of her community, having experienced three hurricanes and more tropical storms in her lifetime. To her safety, her family’s safety, and their property, bodily integrity, food security, recreation, and economic stability from rising sea levels, increased frequency of storm surges, flooding, and high winds. To her health because of impacts to the quality of her air and water by fossil fuel development. To marshes that serve as natural storm barriers from the dredging of canals for oil and gas exploration.
NICK VENNER
Age: 14
Hometown: Lakewood, Colorado
Litigating harms: To forests from pine beetle damage and increasing wildfires. To recreation because of damage to forests, low water flows that prevent fishing, loss of snowpack, and rising temperatures. To his fruit trees, garden, and food supply by hailstorms, drought, and pests made worse by climate change; and thus to his health.