"Young climate activists and their attorneys who won a landmark global warming trial against the state of Montana are trying to convince a federal judge to block President Donald Trump's executive orders promoting fossil fuels. During a two-day hearing starting Tuesday in Missoula, Montana, the activists and their experts plan to describe Trump's actions to boost drilling and mining and discourage renewable energy as a growing danger to children and the planet. They say the Republican's stoking of global warming violates their constitutional rights."
""Federal law doesn't really offer anything to really work with for these groups," said David Dana, a professor at Northwestern University Law School in Chicago. Attorneys for the U.S. Department of Justice and 19 states plus Guam want Judge Dana Christensen to dismiss the case. A previous federal climate lawsuit in Oregon from Our Children's Trust went on for a decade and ended in a denial this year from the U.S. Supreme Court."
Young climate activists who won a Montana state global warming trial seek a federal injunction to block President Trump's executive orders promoting fossil fuels. A two-day hearing in Missoula will present experts describing actions to boost drilling and mining and discourage renewable energy as a growing danger to children and the planet. The activists allege those actions stoke global warming and violate constitutional protections. The 2023 state ruling cited a Montana constitutional right to a clean and healthful environment; comparable language is absent from the U.S. Constitution. Legal experts express skepticism, and the U.S. Department of Justice and 19 states plus Guam seek dismissal. A prior federal climate lawsuit in Oregon ended with a U.S. Supreme Court denial. Attorneys for the plaintiffs invoke protections for life and liberty while the White House defends policy changes as ending prior preferential energy treatment.
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