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Judge rules in favor of youths in landmark Montana climate trial
“This is a monumental decision," said a lawyer for the young plaintiffs, and could influence similar cases in other states.
DEQ employees, 'climate economist,' testify for state in Montana climate change trial
Attorneys for the state of Montana rested their case Monday in the youth climate trial after calling the Department of Environmental Quality director and one of its division directors to the stand, along with a lone expert witness who presented data on greenhouse gas emissions that the plaintiffs’ attorneys deemed to be incorrect.
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Meet the kids behind the historic Montana climate trial
Sixteen young Montanans are fighting their state for embracing fossil fuels and worsening climate change. These are their stories.
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Young environmentalists bring climate case to trial in Montana
Sixteen young people argue that the state is robbing their future by embracing policies that contribute to climate change.
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Montana judge refuses to cancel first U.S. climate trial
A Montana judge has rejected one plank of a youth-led lawsuit that challenges the state’s climate record but denied the state’s effort to torpedo what next month will become the first climate lawsuit in the U.S. to go to trial.
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Climate on trial: Montana youth take on state energy policy
Mica Kantor was just 4 years old when he began to worry about the future of the world’s glaciers. A documentary had him tearing up at the climate-change-fueled retreat of the icy masses.
Fin whales are making a comeback in Antarctic waters, a study finds
Once hunted to the brink of extinction, fin whales in the Southern Ocean have rebounded and returned to their historic feeding grounds, according to a new survey.
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