A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit filed by a small group of climate activists seeking to block US President Donald Trump’s stimulus orders that promote fossil fuels and discourage renewable energy.
US District Judge Dana Christensen said the miracles show overwhelming evidence that climate change is affecting them and that it will get worse because of Trump’s orders.
But Christensen concluded their request for the courts to intervene was “useless” because it was beyond the judiciary’s power to create environmental policies.
The 22 plaintiffs include the youth who won the Mpinland weather trial in the state of Montana in 2023. During a two-day hearing in Missoula, activists testified about their risk to raise children and the planet.
The United Nations agency on Wednesday said on Wednesday that the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are jumping at the highest rate in the previous record, “Turbo-charging” the climate to extremes.
Legal experts say minority activists and their attorneys from the environmental group Our Children’s Trust faced lengthy challenges in the federal lawsuit. The Montana State Constitution declares that the people have a clean and healthy nature, “but that language is not in the US Constitution.
White House spokesman Taylor Roger said Wednesday’s decision marked a victory for the administration and voters who supported its agenda to create an American agenda “by producing more fossil fuels.
“President Trump saved our country from Joe Biden’s Green Energy Scam and will continue to ‘drive, baby, dig,'” Rogers said in an emailed statement.
US President Donald Trump criticized the leaders of the United Nations on Tuesday, telling fellow country leaders in the National Assembly that climate change predictions are being made by “stupid people”
‘Don’t work’
Christensen said in a 31-page document that the order sought by activists would have effectively meant a return to the Biden administration’s environmental programs. Enforcement would have required a review of all climate-related measures taken since Trump took office in January, the judge added.
That would mean monitoring “a false number of federal agency actions to determine whether they violate their mandate,” Christensen wrote. “That’s right, it’s something that’s used.”
Climate activists will appeal Wednesday’s decision, said Julia Olson, senior legal counsel at Hope for Our Children.
“Every day these high-ranking orders continue to operate, these 22 young South Africans risk their health, safety, and future,” Olson said. “The judge could see that the federal government guidelines were harming these young people, but they said his hands were tied.”
The climate of the previous state in Oregon from the trust of our children continued for ten years before the US supreme court refused to consider their final appeal this year. Christensen spoke about that case in defense that the plaintiffs in Montana could not stand to sue the government.
You wrote. “This concern is not automatically accompanied by the ability to act.”
Attorneys for the US Department of Justice and more than a dozen states led by Montana had urged Chriselsen to dismiss the case.
Montana Attorney General Genestin Knudsen said in a statement that the rule of law was in place.
In the end, the court rejected the request of the plaintiffs to force the Trump administration to return unreasonable and undesirable policies, “said Knudsen. “Our suspicions were confirmed – this is just another trial of the show presented by the taxpayer’s money.”
Only a few states, including Montana, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and New York, have environmental protections placed on their courses.
The Montana Supreme Court upheld the outcome of a 2023 lawsuit last year, requiring officials to be more proactive in climate emissions. So far, that has produced few meaningful changes in the Republican-controlled state.
