Activists lose criminal case on climate change defense – but judge praises effort
by Julia Carrie Wong in Lynnwood, Washington from on (#10TJ8)
" 'Delta 5' had attempted to illegally block trains carrying crude oil near Seattle
" Furthest environmentalists have gone in US using 'necessity' defense
Five environmental activists who failed to convince a court that their attempt to block crude oil trains near Seattle was a legally justifiable act of civil disobedience on Friday were nonetheless praised by a judge as "part of the solution" to climate change.
On Friday, the campaigners were convicted in a court in suburban Seattle of misdemeanor trespassing relating to a September 2014 protest in which they blocked railway tracks used by crude oil trains in Everett, Washington.
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