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 ...
(Daily Montanan) The state of Montana was billed nearly $95,000 in total by the three expert witnesses the Attorney General’s Office utilized in theHeld v. Montana climate change trial, two of whom the state never called to testify, according to records the Daily Montanan requested for pa...
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...
Mont., on Friday, May 12, 2023. Seeley dismissed part of the lawsuit filed by young people challenging the state's energy policy after the Legislature repealed it. However, she said a trial is still needed to decide if the rules by...
The plaintiffs want to use the trial scheduled to begin June 12 to highlight the dangers of fossil fuels. An energy policy that was challenged by the lawsuit was repealed in March by the state Legislature, and Montana's attorney general wanted that part of the case dismissed. ...
According to Judge Kathy Seeley of Montana District Court, Montana is a “major emitter of greenhouse gas emissions in the world.” She added that the state’s emissions “have been proven to be a substantial factor” in affecting the climate. Is that the case?
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...
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 clim...
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana’s Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a landmark climate ruling that said the state was violating residents’ constitutional right to a clean environment by permitting oil, gas and coal projects without regard for global warm
It was a fitting scene to close the first youth-led climate trial in the U.S. last Tuesday.Held v. Montanawas, on its face, about a very specific statutory provision buried in Montana’s Environmental Policy Act that forbids the state’s environmental agency from assessing the climate impact...