Billings, Mont..
During a two -day hearing in Missoula, Montana, the activists and her experts plan to describe Trump’s actions in order to promote the holes and mining and to discourage renewable energies as a growing danger to children and the planet. They say that the sharpness of global warming by the Republican violates their constitutional rights.
A victory for the activists would have far broader effects as its victory of 2023, in which a state court blamed the officials for the approval of oil, gas and coal projects regardless of global warming.
According to legal experts, however, the adolescent activists and their lawyers of the environmental group are before a federal court with a long chance. The case of Montana depended on a determination in state constitution and explained that people have a “right to a clean and healthy environment”. This language is missing in the US constitution.
“The federal law does not really offer something for these groups that they can really work with,” said David Dana, professor at Northwestern University Law School in Chicago.
Lawyers from the US Ministry of Justice and 19 countries as well as Guam want judges Dana Christensen to dismiss the case.
An earlier federal climate lawsuit in Oregon from our women’s confidence lasted a decade and ended this year in a rejection of the Supreme Court in the United States.
Andrea Rodgers, the lawyer of the child, said the constitution contains protection for life and freedom that cannot be ignored.
“We ask the court to apply traditional laws in relation to what is the right to life and the right to freedom,” said Rodgers.
The spokesman for the White House, Taylor Rogers, said Trump ended the preferred treatment in some sectors in the energy industry under his predecessor.
“On the first day, President Trump declared an energy education in the best interest of the American people to protect our economic and national security. He will continue to release American energy,” said Rogers in an e -mail.
The 22 plaintiffs include adolescent people and adolescent adults from Montana and several other states.
A 19-year-old from California plans to testify Christians about the damage to the forest fire smoke. A 17-year-old from Montana is said to talk about Trump, which frustrated her attempts to get electric buses for her school. And a 20-year-old woman in Oregon, who goes to school in Florida, will talk about how Trump’s plans can lead to worse hurricanes and forest fires.
“No matter where I live, I cannot escape extreme climate events that are caused by the pollution of fossil fuels,” said Avery McRae, the student from Oregon, in a declaration of judgment.
It is a similar game book as the trial of 2023: The adolescent plaintiffs spent days describing how the deterioration of the air they breathe double, while droughts and reduced snow blankets exhaust rivers that maintain agriculture, fish, wildlife and recovery.
Another legal profit from the trust of our children also came before the state court. Children and teenagers in Hawaii reached a historical settlement last year, which contained the decarbonization of the state’s transport system in the next 21 years.
Only a few other states, including Illinois, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and New York, have anchored environmental protection in their constitutions.
Carbon dioxide that is released when fossil fuels are burned captures heat in the atmosphere and is largely responsible for the warming of the climate.
Amanda Braynack, Communication Director of the Attorney General of Montana, Austin Knudsen, said the states tried to prevent the legal disputes from “destroying our country’s energy security”.
It is expected that lawyers from the Federal Government and the State are expected to deliver arguments, but do not call witnesses.
Even if the activists lose, this could draw attention to Trump’s failure against climate change, said Jonathan Adler, an expert in climate law at William and Mary Law School in Virginia.
“In these cases, it was always a question of what takes place in front of the Court of Justice, but also before the court of public opinion,” said Adler.
The Supreme Court of Montana last year confirmed the result of 2023, in which the officials had to analyze the climate -arming emissions more precisely. So far, this has resulted in only a few sensible changes in a state dominated by Republicans.
Montana Utility supervisory authorities This month rejected an application from environmentalists who wanted to consider climate change in order to play a greater role in decisions by the state public service commission.
Governor Greg Gianforte informed the Associated Press Montana more electricity, including fossil fuels.
“We have an obligation for our constitution and only morally to protect the environment, he said.” I don’t think this is not true with the generation of electricity, and we have to operate fossil fuels coal, gas, oil, hydro, wind and potentially nuclear. “
