Santa’s Helpers: Montana Supreme Court Justices Deliver a Climate Change Miracle to Sixteen Youths
By EsqSocial Corporation 23/12/24
One week before Christmas, the Montana Supreme Court delivered a landmark gift to sixteen youth plaintiffs in Head, et al., v. State of Montana, et al., 2024 MT 300 (Mont. 2024), holding that the State of Montana violated their constitutional rights to a clean environment. The court found that Montana’s failure to consider the global climate change impacts of greenhouse gas emissions from oil, gas, and coal projects under the Montana Environmental Procedure Act (MEPA) to be unconstitutional....
By: Adams and Reese LLP