Two Montana teenagers who successfully sued their state over climate change spoke exclusively to ABC News about the impact of their legal victory on the environment.
in a landmark decision that also found the state was complicit in the problem.
Wildfires across Montana have become more common and more intense in recent years, which scientists attribute to conditions created by global warming from greenhouse gas emissions."We're very lucky to have that, and it hasn't been provided, and now frankly it's going to be," said Badge. "It's huge that she finally declared it."
"Seeing such a landmark case kind of produce such an awesome result was really inspiring," said Layla Hasanzadah, one of 13 young plaintiffs suing the state of Virginia over climate change. The Montana Department of Justice called last month's ruling "absurd" and a "publicity stunt," saying in a statement to ABC News that "Montanans can't be blamed for changing the climate."
Montana's energy industry supports more than 57,000 jobs and contributes more than $7 billion to the state economy, according to the Montana Petroleum Association."There's permits that have standards that are well vetted through really integrated stakeholder involvement of all sorts. We will permit according to those standards," he said.
The court's decision notably stops short of ordering Montana to cut support for the energy industry or take steps to remedy the impacts from fossil fuel emissions. Steven Running is the emeritus regents professor of ecology at the University of Montana. He received the Nobel Prize in 2007 for his work on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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