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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Amy Beth Hanson and Matthew Brown

Montana youth first to trial over whether state obligated to protect residents from climate change

Thom Bridge, Independent Record

A group of Montana youth who say their lives are already being affected by climate change and that state government is failing to protect them are the first of dozens of such efforts to get their lawsuit to trial on Monday.

They will try to persuade a judge that the state’s allegiance to fossil fuel development endangers their health and livelihoods and those of future generations.

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