A week before the Montana youth climate change trial is set to start, the state has asked the Montana Supreme Court to halt the trial and take supervisory control over the case on the basis the district court judge set to hear the trial made “a mistake of law” in allowing the case to go to trial.
The plaintiffs in the case are 16 Montana youth who argue the state’s policies and procedures surrounding energy production and development in Montana is violating their constitutional right to a clean and healthful environment by contributing to climate change.
Billings police say a 30-year-old woman abducted by her ex-boyfriend Friday, has been found and is cooperating with police in an investigation into her disappearance.