JUHLIN: The youth plaintiffs in the case, known as Held v. MARY WOOD: The world is watching the Held case to see what rulings come out of it, because those rulings will very much have an impact on cases around the world.
Mary Wood is an environmental law professor at the University of Oregon and has been following this movement. Similar litigation is pending in several states, including Utah, Hawaii and Virginia. JUHLIN: The Montana case is part of a broader movement where young people are suing governments for failing to act on climate change. LANDER BUSSE: Just normal kids who care about their home and love where they live and want to protect it can come together and do something really special here.
At the post-trial celebration, 18-year-old plaintiff Lander Busse told supporters he couldn't believe they had made it this far. The state tried several times to have the case thrown out since it was first filed in 2020. They're suing the state of Montana for violating their constitutional right to a healthy environment by promoting fossil fuel energy policies. JUHLIN: The heroic 16 are young people ages 5 to 22. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: The heroic 16 are here to reset history. And as Ellis Juhlin with Montana Public Radio reports, it likely won't be the last.ĮLLIS JUHLIN, BYLINE: A few hundred people braved stormy weather to celebrate the end of the trial Tuesday at a park in Montana's capital city of Helena. It's the first youth-led climate case to make it to trial in the U.S.
More than a dozen young people are suing the state of Montana for not addressing human-caused climate change.
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