In a Montana courtroom, a young woman’s eyes welled with tears as she explained how drought, wildfires and floods have put her family’s cattle ranch at risk.
“It’s stressful,” Rikki Held, 22, told the court last week.
“That’s my life, and my home is there and it impacts the well-being of myself, my family, my community.”
Held is one of 16 young people suing the state for failing to take action to curb global warming.
The climate change lawsuit, which continues in court this week, is the first to reach trial among dozens filed across the U.S. in the last decade.
State officials have sought to downplay Montana’s contributions to climate change, with the
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