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FIRST ON FOX: Parental watchdog group American Parents Coalition is sounding the alarm about a left-wing climate advocacy group that they warn could be coming for your kids.
In a new report, published via APC’s parental notification system called “The Lookout,” the parental rights watchdog alleges climate advocacy group Our Children’s Trust (OCT) is “emotionally manipulating” children to advance its climate agenda.
Besides OCT’s lawsuits that entail youth plaintiffs, APC pointed to curriculum materials the climate advocacy group promotes, which the watchdog said are “aimed at indoctrinating kids into a particular set of beliefs about the environment.” APC also cited OCT’s promotion of social media posts and research studies that talk about children’s “climate-related stress.”
“Our Children’s Trust should not be ‘trusted’ by parents,” APC Executive Director Alleigh Marré said. “The left’s obsession with undermining parental authority and targeting young minds has now entered the climate movement.”
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Young women march against climate change during a New York City rally in 2022. (Lindsey Nicholson/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
In May, on behalf of 22 young people, several of whom were minors at the time of filing, OCT filed Lighthiser v. Trump to challenge the president’s executive orders related to the fossil fuel industry and peeling back Biden-era green energy mandates. APC says the suit utilizes a narrative of climate hysteria, arguing, “Plaintiffs were born into and now live in a destabilized climate system…” and “Every additional ton of GHG pollution and increment of heat Defendants cause will cause Olivia [a child plaintiff] more harm.”
Meanwhile, in addition to using children to help file its climate change-related lawsuits, OCT also pushes educator resources and course materials to schools that…
