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.
Montana is one of just three states whose constitutional bill of rights explicitly guarantees the right to a "clean and healthful environment." "If our state agencies and our state legislature responds to this in good faith, then we will see a difference on the ground in terms of permitting decisions and in terms ultimately of the amount of CO2 that's being discharged into our atmosphere," Sullivan said.in four other states -- Hawaii, Virginia, Utah and Oregon -- with similar lawsuits pending against their governments over the climate crisis.
State and federal governments have long rejected claims they bear legal liability for climate change impacts. "The state legislature and the U.S. Congress have not said affirmatively, 'You shall go this way in a climate analysis,'" said Chris Dorrington, director of Montana's Department of Environmental Quality, which oversees permits for new oil, gas and coal projects in the state.
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