A Montana judge has sided with a group of young environmentalists who sued the state over its regulations of the fossil fuel industry, contending that Helena’s policies had violated their rights to a clean environment. …

“This ruling is absurd, but not surprising from a judge who let the plaintiffs’ attorneys put on a weeklong taxpayer-funded publicity stunt that was supposed to be a trial,” the spokeswoman said.

“Montanans can’t be blamed for changing the climate — even the plaintiffs’ expert witnesses agreed that our state has no impact on the global climate,” she continued. “Their same legal theory has been thrown out of federal court and courts in more than a dozen states. It should have been here as well, but they found an ideological judge who bent over backward to allow the case to move forward and earn herself a spot in their next documentary.”

[Stupid judiciary tricks. This won’t last long, especially in Montana. — Ed]