Right to a Healthy Environment Prevails in Montana

News Based on facts, either observed and verified directly by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Youth plaintiffs await the start of the nation's first youth climate change trial at Montana's First Judicial District Court in Helena, Montana. Sixteen claimants, ranging in age from 6 to 22, sued the state for promoting fossil fuel energy policies that they say violate their constitutional right to a "clean and healthful environment". The judge who heard the United States’ first constitutional climate trial earlier this year has ruled in favor...