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Environment

Judge sides with youth activists in historic US climate crisis case

Gas emissions rises from a coal-burning power plant in Colstrip, Montana [Matthew Brown/The Associated Press]

A federal judge in the United States has sided with youth activists who accuse Montana state agencies of violating their constitutional rights to a clean and healthy environment.

In a ruling on Monday, District Court Judge Kathy Seeley found that the policy the US state uses to evaluate requests for fossil fuel permits is unconstitutional.

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