Zeus: Montana 16 backer rolls out national campaign

Our Children's Trust also wins Montana Supreme Court decision to avoid stay.

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Youth plaintiffs in Held v. State of Montana, a constitutional climate lawsuit, are cheered on by supporters as they arrive at the courthouse for the trial. Photo:  Robin Loznak for Our Children’s Trust.

(David Callaway is founder and Editor-in-Chief of Callaway Climate Insights. He is the former president of the World Editors Forum, Editor-in-Chief of USA Today and MarketWatch, and CEO of TheStreet Inc. His climate columns have appeared in USA Today, The Independent, and New Thinking magazine).

SAN FRANCISCO (Callaway Climate Insights) — Mat dos Santos, managing attorney for Our Children’s Trust, was getting ready to speak at an event here in San Francisco last night when he got the news on his phone.

The Montana Supreme Court had just denied a motion from the state to stay its decision last summer in the “Montana 16” case to begin requiring the authorities to consider climate change as part of the constitutional right of residents to a “clean and healthful environment.”