Local and national climate change experts are set to testify in a Missoula courthouse next week, when a judge will hear arguments in a federal lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s efforts to “unleash” fossil fuel energy in the U.S.

Filed in May in U.S. District Court in Missoula, the case seeks to invalidate portions of three executive orders signed by President Donald Trump earlier this year. They include declaring a “national energy emergency” to expedite fossil fuel production, blocking clean energy and electric vehicle initiatives from the Biden administration and cutting federal climate and environmental research and operations.

The plaintiffs, led by 19-year-old Livingston resident Eva Lighthiser, include 10 of the 16 Montanans who successfully sued the state three years

See Full Page