Children, parents file suit to set, enforce limits on greenhouse gases in Montana

Bente Bechtold is 10 years old and can’t remember a time in her life when she wasn’t worried about climate change.

"I’ve known about it forever and ever and ever," she said.

What she knows makes her mad.

"I just really thought our leaders really weren’t paying much attention to it," said the Sussex School fourth-grader.

So Bente and her 12-year-old brother, Stellan, whose own feelings on the subject are equally pronounced – the government, he chides, "could do better" – took action.

They sued.

By GWEN FLORIO of the Missoulian

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