On December 18th, Montana’s Supreme Court upheld a landmark ruling from a lower court last year. In the Held v Montana case, the Montana justices agreed that the state was violating residents’ constitutional right to a clean environment by permitting oil, gas and coal projects without regard for global warming. The lawsuit originally filed in 2020 by 16 Montanans —who are now ages 7 to 23 — was considered a breakthrough as the first climate youth lawsuit to go to trial in the US. In their Left & the Law segment, Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker discuss the significance of this ruling and the legal climate ahead for cases before the courts with Trump returning to power.
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