A judge in Montana has sided with 16 young activists in the nation’s first climate change trial, ruling that state agencies infringed on plantiff’s right according to the state’s Constitution to a clean environment by promoting the use of fossil fuels.
Attorneys for the 16 plaintiffs, ranging in age from 5 to 22, presented evidence during a two-week trial arguing that they will not be able to lead “live clean and healthy lives in Montana” while experiencing more frequent and extreme weather events and other climactic events they linked with elevated greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
