Judge sides with youth in Montana climate change trial, finds two laws unconstitutional
Lewis and Clark County District Court Judge Kathy Seeley sided with the young plaintiffs in her decision in the Held v. Montana trial.
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Lewis and Clark County District Court Judge Kathy Seeley sided with the young plaintiffs in her decision in the Held v. Montana trial.
The ruling comes two months after the conclusion of a seven-day trial in Helena that attracted national attention as one of the first to challenge a state’s fossil fuel policies
The Montana case, brought by plaintiffs ranging in age from 5 to 22, was the first of its kind to go to trial in the United States.
The first-of-its-kind ruling in the U.S. adds to a small number of legal decisions around the world that have established a government duty to protect citizens from climate change.
Young environmental activists scored a ground-breaking legal victory when a Montana judge said state agencies were violating their constitutional right to a clean environment by allowing fossil fuel development without