'It is really scary seeing what you love disappear before your eyes,' said a young plaintiff in YouthvGovMT represented by youthvgov.
that "the state and each person shall maintain and improve a clean and healthful environment in Montana for present and future generations."
During the first week of the trial, the young plaintiffs explained how the climate crisis had already impacted their daily lives with hotter summers and more devastating wildfires, floods, and droughts. On Monday, the court heard witnesses for the defense. The state called two members of the Montana Department of Environmental Quality—Director Chris Dorrington and Administrator for the Air, Energy, and Mining Division Sonja Nowakowski, as well as economist and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University Terry Anderson.
"Anyone listening to the trial last week heard irrefutable expert testimony from the world's top experts in their fields," Julia Olson, chief legal counsel with Our Children's Trust, said in a statement Monday. "In contrast, the state presented a slim offering of 'we can't stop permitting fossil fuel projects' alongside an economist—their only expert—who presented testimony with mathematical errors and a misunderstanding of emissions data.
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