The U.S. Needs to Listen to Montana – Ninth Circuit tosses youth climate lawsuit against feds: No right to a livable planet

Article IX, Montana Constitution

Text of Section 1:

Protection and Improvement

(1) The state and each person shall maintain and improve a clean and healthful environment in Montana for present and future generations.

(2) The legislature shall provide for the administration and enforcement of this duty.

(3) The legislature shall provide adequate remedies for the protection of the environmental life support system from degradation and provide adequate remedies to prevent unreasonable depletion and degradation of natural resources.^[1]

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The Ninth Circuit put the brakes on a landmark climate change suit against the federal government filed by 21 young people, finding that while a factual dispute over whether the government knowingly created climate change by subsidizing the fossil fuel industry exists, courts lack the authority to craft climate policy that ensures a planet capable of sustaining human life.

By Karina Brown (Courthouse News)

https://www.missoulacurrent.com/government/2020/01/youth-climate-change/

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