HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana's Supreme Court has rejected an attempt by the state's Republican governor to block a landmark climate ruling that said regulators must consider the effects of greenhouse gas emissions when issuing permits for fossil fuel development.
The state constitution has this in it:
This makes it possible to use state courts to force some level of environmental protection.
It’d be nice if our federal constitution said that…
Based on our current Supreme Court, they’d probably do SOME kind of mental gymnastics to justify ignoring it…
“They didn’t have an environment 200 years ago like we do now, so taking that into consideration…”
“… And with the potential lower profit margin for the ultra rich…”
well definitely never expected that from montana :)
We need to amend the US Constitution to something similar.
Good thing corporations are persons - first time I’ve said that