Modelling Climate Change Impacts on Spring Runoff for the Rocky Mountains of Montana and Alberta II: Future Scenarios and Runoff Change Forecasts. Canadian Water Resources Journal 36(1): 35-52.Larson RP, Byrne JM, Johnson DL, et al. (2011) Modelling climate change impacts on spring runoff ...
In August 2023, Montana’s First Judicial District sided with the 16 plaintiffs, who cited a state constitutional provision guaranteeing “a clean and healthful environment” to argue the state violated that right with a law that barred weighing climate impacts during the approval process for energy...
Montana’s top court is set to hear the state’s appeal of a landmark ruling holding that it wasviolating the rights of young peopleto a clean and healthful environment by barring regulators from considering the impacts on climate change when approvingfossil fuelprojects. The Republican-led state...
Seeley wrote in the ruling that "Montana's emissions and climate change have been proven to be a substantial factor in causing climate impacts to Montana's environment and harm and injury" to the youth. However, it's up to the state legislature to determine how to bring the policy into co...
Montana’s Constitution requires agencies to “maintain and improve” a clean environment. A law signed by Gianforte last year saidenvironmental reviewsmay not consider climate impacts unless the federal government makes carbon dioxide a regulated pollutant. The Montana ...
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 impacts of fossil fuel extraction within the state. But the central tension of this lawsuit was much larger...
In Montana Climate Kids Lawsuit, Climate Change Misinformation Wins By Gregory Wrightstone A group of young people in Montanawon a landmark lawsuiton August 14, when ajudge ruledas unconstitutional the state’s failure to consider climate change when approving fossil fuel projects. The judge accepte...
On top of all that, the NEPA changes ordered agencies to "consider the effects of climate change in environmental reviews and encourage identification of reasonable alternatives that will mitigate climate impacts." In their lawsuit, filed in federal court, the 20 states say the Biden administration...
The 6-1 decision, the first of its kind by a U.S. state supreme court, came in the first lawsuit to go to trial nationwide by young environmental activists challenging state and federal policies they say are exacerbating climate change.
Climate impactsIntro-specific variationLycosidaeThe physical science linking human-induced increases in greenhouse gasses to the warming of the global climate system is well established, but the implications of this warming for ecosystem processes and services at regional scales is still poorly understood....