States Can Intervene, Keep Immunity In Youths’ Fossil Fuel Executive Orders Suit

( August 14, 2025, 2:10 PM EDT) -- BUTTE, Mont. — A Montana federal judge ruled Aug. 13 that a group of 19 states and one territory can intervene as defendants and keep their sovereign immunity in a lawsuit filed by 22 minors and young adults against President Donald J. Trump and a litany of government agencies seeking to rescind and declare unconstitutional a series of executive orders that include directives to increase fossil fuel production....