One week before Christmas, the Montana Supreme Court delivered a landmark gift to sixteen youth plaintiffs in Head, et al., v. State of Montana,

Montana's Supreme Court has upheld a lower court's decision that had sided with 16 young activists who argued that the state violated their right to a clean environment. The lawsuit was brought by students arguing that a state law banning the consideration of climate when choosing energy policy was unconstitutional.

Proponents of more comprehensive climate regulations who are frustrated by the federal government have increasingly turned their attention to