Groups Sue PSC for Refusing to Consider Climate Change

Montana’s Constitution establishes the right to a clean and healthful environment. Does that right extend to how the state regulates the climate impacts of monopoly utilities, like NorthWestern Energy?

A coalition of businesses, environmental groups and healthcare professionals says yes. That’s why they first petitioned the Montana Public Service Commission (PSC) to include climate change in its regulatory decision-making two years ago. Last month the PSC formally rejected that petition, and earlier in October EarthJustice and the Western Environmental Law Center filed suit in state district c...