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As a result of a high -level court’s decision to promote Montana’s climate policy in the state, Republican legislators are emphasizing bills in the state, which can eliminate the state’s ability to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The complete court targets the state’s environmental analysis of the state, the air quality rules and the judicial system. It is by her Conduct vs. Montana The matter in which 16 youths sued the state for its contribution to climate change, and claimed that its focal fuel -based approach to energy violated the “clean and healthy environment” of the state constitution. The plaintiff won, and in December 2024, the Montana Supreme Court upheld his victory.
Montana Republican Representative Greg Obonder, who can affect climate action in the state, Montana Republican Representative Greg Obonder’s case “don’t just make headlines,” He said at a press conference. “He sent shock waves through Montana’s economy.”
“This is an open invitation for workers to surrender our environmental laws against the industries that Montana continues to operate, and Montane has worked,” he said.
The abolition of the decision to hold the state’s 90 -day legislative meeting, which is ready to end in early May, and is almost confident of signing the state’s bedside environmental policy bills by the Republican Governor of the state. However, the war is likely to continue in the courts.
A clean and healthy environment
The decision to hold on to the constitutional reservations of Montana’s environment. At the 1972 constitutional convention of the state, the framers took the state’s environmental problems seriously. Mining and logging industries had left lasting environmental damage in the state, water and ground, and for decades, the Aneakonda copper mining company gained a lot of power in the state legislature, resulting in large -scale mining, logging and other extraction industry. Today, Montana is the home of the super -fund sites in the country, or the largest public toxic waste cleaning complex.