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    The Case

    On June 1, 2022, 13 young people from Hawai‘i filed a constitutional climate lawsuit against their state government and the Hawai‘i Department of Transportation (HDOT).

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    Meet the plaintiffs, their legal team, experts, and the defendants in Navahine v. Hawai‘i Department of Transportation.

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    Navahine v. Hawai’i DOT hit headlines locally, nationally, and globally. Read select coverage.

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Our Children’s Trust

  • Andrea Rodgers
  • Joanna Zeigler
  • Julia Olson
  • Laura Mebert
  • Phil Gregory
  • Stephanie Drake

Earthjustice

  • Isaac Moriwake
  • Kylie Wager Cruz
  • Leinā‘ala L. Ley
  • Navahine F.
  • Charlotte M.
  • ʻIlikea N.
  • Kalālapa W.
  • Kalikookalani T.
  • Kaʻōnohi P.
  • Kawena F.
  • Kū Kapu
  • Mesina D.
  • Pahonu C.
  • Rylee Brooke K.
  • Seed L.
  • Taliya N.
  • Catherine Smith, J.D.
  • Daniel Sperling, Ph.D.
  • Greg Asner, Ph.D.
  • Jeff Mikulina
  • Kealoha Fox, Ph.D.
  • Lise Van Susteren, M.D.
  • Mark Z. Jacobson, Ph.D.
  • Michael Replogle
  • Rosanna ʻAnolani Alegado, Ph.D.
  • Steve Running, Ph.D.

Legal team

As advocates, our job is to make sure children’s voices are heard in courts of law. The Navahine legal team are Andrea Rodgers, Joanna Zeigler, Julia Olson, Phil Gregory, and Laura Mebert with Our Children’s Trust and Kylie Wager Cruz and Isaac Moriwake with Earthjustice.

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Earthjustice

Kylie Wager Cruz

Kylie represents community groups in proceedings to promote clean energy and clean water, end the use of fossil fuels, protect Native Hawaiian communities disproportionately burdened by pesticide exposure, safeguard Hawaiʻi’s native and threatened wildlife, and restore stream flows.

She has served as a legal fellow at the Hawaiʻi Department of Land and Natural Resources — Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement, Hawaiʻi Public Utilities Commission, and Earthjustice Mid-Pacific regional office, and an extern for Hon. Richard R. Clifton, circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. 

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