In a trial that started Monday, young activists in Montana are facing off against the state over climate change. © Thom Bridge/Indpendent Record via AP The lawsuit on behalf of 16 young people, who were between the ages of 2 and 18 when litigation began, makes the case that the state...
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A Montana judge on Friday said a climate change lawsuit from young people challenging the state’s pro-fossil fuel policies will proceed to trial despite efforts by the state to derail the case. The plaintiffs want to use the trial scheduled to begin June 12 to hig...
FILE - Youth plaintiffs in the climate change lawsuit, Held vs. Montana, arrive at the Lewis and Clark County Courthouse, on June 20, 2023, in Helena, Mont., for the final day of the trial. A Montana judge in August 2023 sided with young environ...
A Montana judge on Monday sided with young environmental activists who said state agencies were violating their constitutional right to aclean and healthful environmentby permitting fossil fuel development without considering its effect on the climate. The ruling in the first-of-its-kind trial in the ...
The most recent example is Held v Montana –the historic climate trial in which 16 young plaintiffs took the state of Montana to trial for violating their constitutional rights to a 'clean and healthful environment'. The youth argued that Bill No. 971 the Montana Environmental Policy Act, ...
The state of Montana was billed nearly $95,000 in total by the three expert witnesses the Attorney General’s Office utilized in the Held v. Montana climate change trial, two of whom the state never called to testify.
The Montana Supreme Court upheld a landmark trial court decision in favor of 16 young people who said their health and futures were being jeopardized by climate change that the state aggravates through its permitting of energy projects. SEE ALSO:Judge dismisses youth cli...
state will urge the Montana Supreme Court to conclude that the lawsuit by 16 young people should never have gone to trial in the first place because they lack
A judge in Montana, citing theJulianacase, agreed with that reasoning when dismissing parts of the lawsuit last summer but allowed other claims to advance toward a trial. Those claims don't assert that Montana isn't doing enough to stop climate change. Rather, they allege, the state's actio...
The Montana Supreme Court upheld a landmark trial court decision in favor of 16 young people who said their health and futures were being jeopardized by climate change that the state aggravates through its permitting of energy projects. The 6-1 decision came in the first lawsuit to go to tria...