A Landmark Victory in the Legal Fight Against Climate Change

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1. With the federal judiciary [increasingly](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/06/west-virginia-environmental-protection-agency-climate-change-clean-air.html) %5Bhostile%5D(https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/blackface-incident-at-washington-post-cartoonists-2018-halloween-party-resurfaces-amid-protests/2020/06/17/66f09bde-af2e-11ea-856d-5054296735e5_story.html) toward the battle against climate change, environmental litigators have turned to state courts for progress. They scored a major victory on Wednesday when the Montana Supreme Court issued a [landmark decision](https://juddocumentservice.mt.gov/getDocByCTrackId?DocId=500371) holding that the state constitution protects residents against climate change. On this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode of Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern discuss the case and its consequences for other climate-curious state supreme courts. [https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/12/montana-supreme-court-makes-major-climate-change-ruling.html](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/12/montana-supreme-court-makes-major-climate-change-ruling.html)

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