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Montana kids' landmark win adds momentum to climate fight |
Youth climate activists' triumph in a Montana state court could set the stage for further victories in states with environmental constitutional amendments. |
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A Montana court last week ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in the case, Held v. Montana. Litigants sued under a state constitutional amendment guaranteeing a right to a healthy environment after the state sought to bar factoring in greenhouse gas emissions from new energy projects' environmental reviews. Experts said the decision is likely to add momentum in the six other states whose constitutions guarantee environmental protection in some form — New York, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. "There are suits we're going to see going forward against fossil fuel companies [and] this might make those more viable," said David Driesen, a professor at Syracuse University's College of Law with a focus on environmental law. "It's not direct precedent, but it suggests the courts should go ahead and apply normal legal principles to climate change." In the ruling, Judge Kathy Seeley of the 1st District Court in Montana wrote that "the science is unequivocal that dangerous impacts to the climate are occurring due to human activities, primarily from the extraction and burning of fossil fuels." Read more in a full report at TheHill.com. |
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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters Wednesday that the House will likely investigate the federal response to the deadly wildfires in Maui that have killed more than 100 people. |
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| At least one person is dead and two others were injured after Tropical Storm Franklin made landfall in the Dominican Republic and Haiti on Wednesday, bringing heavy rain and mudslides to the island of Hispaniola. |
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Climate change more than doubled the odds of so-called fire weather, the meteorological conditions that fuel the spread of wildfires, in eastern Canada, according to research published by World Weather Attribution on Tuesday. |
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A new study has found that healthy ecosystems provide a powerful defense against invasive species — and the added disruption they bring. According to findings published Wednesday in Science, invasive … |
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News we've flagged from other outlets touching on energy issues, the environment and other topics: |
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America's Loneliest Road Is Finally EV-Ready (Bloomberg)
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Alabama environmental justice advocate's influence reaches to White House (AL.com) Stifling heat spells misery in schools with no air conditioning (E&E News)
Extreme heat wave reaching its peak, especially in Midwest and Gulf Coast (The Washington Post)
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Those who disobeyed the barricaded road closures during the Maui fires survived the disaster, while many of those who heeded orders to turn around perished in their cars and homes with no way out, The Associated Press reported. Read more |
| VILNIUS, Lithuania — The Biden administration is urging U.S. citizens in Belarus to depart the country immediately and warned against travel there in a statement published Monday. Read more |
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