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In 2007, Montana published its comprehensive Climate Change Action Plan and became the seventh U.S. state to join the Western Climate Initiative (WCI). Shortly thereafter, numerous local governments across the state began to develop formal climate change policies and greenhouse gas emission standards to be implemented at the local level.
Those cases and the Montana lawsuit have resulted in a small number of rulings establishing a government duty to protect citizens from climate change. Driesen said that the effects of the ...
In urging the justices to overturn District Court Judge Kathy Seeley's 2023 ruling, Mark Stermitz, a lawyer for the state, said even if human factors contributed to climate change, "that doesn't ...
The Montana Supreme Court is considering a challenge to a 2023 ruling that found the state had violated its constitutional environmental protections by failing to consider the climate crisis in ...
The state of Montana is set to appeal a landmark state court ruling that sided with youth climate activists who sued the state for contributing to climate change. Montana Attorney General Austin ...
The 2020 Held complaint [1]:"Nature of the Action", § 4 challenged the constitutionality of two Montana statutes: (1) the State Energy Policy, which directs statewide energy production and use, and (2) the "climate change exception" in the MEPA, which prohibits the state from considering how its energy economy may contribute to climate change. [4]
But attorneys for officials including Gov. Greg Gianforte told justices Wednesday that climate change is too broad a problem to solve through the courts. They said greenhouse gases from Montana are insignificant on a global scale, and they noted that state law prohibits the denial of fossil-fuel projects based on carbon dioxide emissions.
Youth plaintiffs in the climate change lawsuit, Held vs. Montana, arrive at the Lewis and Clark County Courthouse, on June 20, 2023, in Helena, Montana (Thom Bridge/Independent Record)