“This decision could not be a timelier affirmation of the rights possessed by all Montanans, and especially those of its children, to a livable climate,” said Melissa Hornbein, senior attorney at the Western Environmental Law Center. “As the climate crisis intensifies with unprecedented heat and wildfire smoke engulfing Montana, the court has put the executive and legislature on notice that they can no longer continue to ignore these fundamental human rights in the face of a rapidly destabilizing climate for the sake of an ‘all of the above’ energy policy.”

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