Locals attend climate change hearing at supreme court - The Livingston Enterprise
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Two Park County teens — Eva Lighthiser and Remy Sexton — were among locals who traveled to Helena this month to watch a state supreme court hearing in the case of Held v. Montana.
Lighthiser, a former homeschooler who’s planning to start college next year, is one of the 16 youth plaintiffs in the case, which was filed in 2020 when she was 14.
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