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Youth activists win 'unprecedented' climate settlement in Hawaii

State’s transport department given a 2045 deadline to fully decarbonize and achieve zero emissions under agreement

“This is an extraordinary, unprecedented victory for the youth plaintiffs,” Michael Gerrard, the faculty director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University, told the Guardian. By prioritizing projects like highway expansion instead of efforts to electrify transit and promote walking and biking, the complaint says, the state created “untenable levels of greenhouse gas emissions”. Earlier this year, the firm notched a major win when Montana’s supreme court upheld a groundbreaking decision requiring state regulations to consider the climate crisis before approving permits for fossil fuel development.

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