The plaintiffs contend that Montana's embrace of fossil fuels is destroying pristine environments. Read more at straitstimes.com.
HELENA, Montana – The US’s first ever climate change trial opened Monday in the Helena, Montana, where a group of young people are contending that the state’s embrace of fossil fuels is destroying pristine environments, upending cultural traditions andThe case, more than a decade in the making, is the first of a series of similar challenges pending in various states as part of an effort to increase pressure on policymakers to take more urgent action on emissions.
The case revolves around the contention from 16 young residents – who range in age from 5 to 22 – that the state government has failed to live up to its constitutional mandate to “maintain and improve a clean and healthful environment in Montana for present and future generations.” The two-week trial, in a courtroom in Lewis and Clark County, will feature both the accounts of young people dealing with climate change and the testimony of climate experts. At the end, Judge Kathy Seeley will be asked by the plaintiffs to declare that the state’s support for the fossil fuel industry is unconstitutional.
“Montana’s warming climate will have cascading environmental and economic impacts,” Mr Roger Sullivan, a lawyer for the young residents, said in opening statements. Ms Julia Olson, executive director of Our Children’s Trust, an environmental nonprofit organisation that helped bring the Montana lawsuit, said the case had the potential to set a new course for a healthier and more prosperous future for the generations to come. Many of the young plaintiffs planned to testify.
“We wanted an environment that was clean and healthful, so it was a fairly long and contentious debate to ultimately get the words ‘clean and healthful’ included as descriptors of the environment,” she said.
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