Billings, Mont. – Young climate activists and their attorneys won a trial of global warming in Montana’s landmark, where they are trying to convince a federal judge to stop President Donald Trump’s executive order to promote fossil fuels.
During a two-day hearing Tuesday started in Missoula, Montana, activists and their experts plan to describe Trump’s actions to promote drilling, mining and discourage renewable energy, an increasingly serious danger to children and the planet. They say Republicans’ enthusiasm for global warming violates their constitutional rights.
The militants’ victory will have a wider impact than their 2023 victory, where state courts accuse officials of allowing oil, gas and coal projects not to consider global warming.
But legal experts say young activists from the Environmental Group and their attorneys have longer odds in federal courts in the trust of our children. Montana cases depend on the provisions declared by the people in the state constitution, with a “clean and healthy environment.” The U.S. Constitution lacks this language.
“Federal law doesn’t really work for these groups,” said David Dana, a professor at Northwestern University School of Law.
Attorneys in the U.S. Department of Justice and 19 states and Guam have asked Judge Dana Christensen to dismiss the case.
The Us Trust’s Oregon federal climate lawsuit lasted for a decade and this year rejected the U.S. Supreme Court denial.
Our children’s trust lawyer Andrea Rodgers said the Constitution contains protection of life and freedom, which cannot be ignored.
“We require the courts to have traditional laws that constitute the right to life and freedom,” Rogers said.
White House spokesman Taylor Rogers said trump card Ended preferential treatment for certain sectors of his predecessor in the energy industry.
“President trump card To protect our economy and national security, the first day of energy emergency was announced on Day 1. He will continue to release American energy,” Rogers said in an email.
The 22 plaintiffs included young people and young people from Montana and several other states.
A 19-year-old man from California plans to testify to Christensen about the damage from wildfire smoke. A 17-year-old man from Montana is scheduled to talk about trump card Frustrated she tried to buy an electric bus for the school. A 20-year-old Oregon woman attends school in Florida Trump’s Plans could lead to hurricanes and wildfires worse.
“I can’t escape extreme climate events caused by fossil fuel pollution, no matter where I live,” Oregon student Avery McRae said in a court announcement.
Here is a similar script with the 2023 Trial: Young plaintiffs spent several days describing the evil they breathed while drought and lowered snowdrifts exhausted the rivers that sustain agriculture, fish, wildlife and recreational activities.
Another legal victory for our children’s trust funds also comes from the state courts. Last year, children and adolescents in Hawaii reached a historic settlement that included the requirement to decarbonize the state’s transportation system over the next 21 years.
Only a few other states, including Illinois, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and New York, have been protected by the environment in their constitutions.
When fossil fuels are released when they are burned, carbon dioxide captures heat from the atmosphere and is largely responsible for climate warming.
Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen Director of Communications Amanda Braynack said states are trying to prevent litigants from “destroying our nation’s energy security.”
Attorneys from the federal government and states are expected to argue, but no witnesses will be called.
Even if radicals lose, they may attract attention Trump’s Jonathan Adler, a climate law expert at William and Mary School of Law in Virginia, said there was no action in the absence of opposition to climate change.
“These cases are always what happens in the courts and what happens in the courts of public opinion,” Adler said.
Last year, Montana’s Supreme Court upheld the 2023 trial results, which required officials to conduct a deeper analysis of climate-warming emissions. So far, this has had little meaningful change in a Republican-led country.
Montana’s utility regulator rejected a petition from environmentalists this month, hoping climate change will agree to play a bigger role in the state’s Public Service Commission’s decision.
Gov. Greg Gianforte told the Associated Press that Montana needs more electricity, including fossil fuels.
“We have an obligation to protect the environment, and we are morally obligated,” he said. But I think this is inconsistent with electricity production, we need to use fossil fuels coal, natural gas, oil, oil, hydraulics, wind and potential nuclear. ”
