A group of young people in Montana sued the state over its use of fossil fuel. They said that Montana’s failure to consider climate change when it gave the go-ahead to fossil fuel projects was unconstitutional under Montana law. A judge agreed with them.
The Montana Attorney General went ballistic and promptly promised to appeal the judge’s decision to the state Supreme Court. He said the whole legal action was absurd and a publicity stunt.
Montana gets a third of its energy by burning coal. It has one of the four counties named Carbon in the United States, all of them environmental disasters. (I live in the one in PA-the others are in Wyoming and Utah). I wonder if the Attorney General thinks the fires in Hawaii, the heat wave in Arizona, and the coral die-off in Florida are also “absurd” publicity stunts.
Way to go, kids. Thanks.
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