Environment Program and Columbia University’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. The Montana case will face an appeal to the state Supreme Court, Emily Flower, a spokesperson for Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen (R), confirmed Monday. “I know that climate change is a global issue, but Montana has to take responsibility for our part in that,” she said. She further wrote that the state’s emissions and climate change have caused harm to the environment and the youth plaintiffs. The firm’s constitutional youth climate case against the Hawaii Department of Transportation is scheduled to go to trial in June 2024.

Source: Washington Post August 15, 2023 18:50 UTC