Oh good morning Tweeterverse! I'm in the Lewis & Clark District Courthouse for Day 3 of Held v. Montana, the constitutional climate change lawsuit. Follow for updates.
Starting off with continued testimony from pediatrician Dr. Lori Byron. Attorney Phil Gregory is on direct, currently going through Adverse Childhood Experiences and how they affect individuals later in life. stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/82316
Dr. Byron says some plaintiffs have testified to experiencing "solastalgia," the idea that 'you've lose your home even when you're still living in it."
The term more specifically refers to the particular anxiety, despair, and/or trauma that may be experienced by those whose homes, lands, and/or communities are subjected to unwanted, adverse, or unforeseen environmental changes.
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Drawing the line between air pollution and lowered cognitive performance and IQ, Dr. Byron states, "Air pollution is like lead, no level is a safe level."
"prevention is better than treatment, it's almost always substantially cheaper than treatment." Byron calls it the underpinning of public health.
Courtroom observation: The media box is down to six? of us? Big drop off from Monday's 25+. Some may have drifted off to the live stream across the street or elsewhere, as I'm liable to do later today. Did I mention they have popcorn over there?
Day 2 of the Held v. Montama trial is about to begin in Helena. Today we will here from five witnesses from the plaintiffs: Dr. Cathy Whitlock, Dr. Lori Byron, and Dr. Dan Fagre, and youth plaintiffs Mica Kantor and Badge Busse. #mtclimatecase#mtpol#mtnews
Starting with Dr. Cathy Whitlock, who co-authored an expert report with Dr. Steven Running, whom we heard from yesterday, about the climate change and specifically the effects of greenhouse gas emissions on climate change in Montana.
Welp, I'm here in with a veritable media circus to cover Held v. Montana, the constitutional climate change trial. If you need to get up to speed, peruse mtclimatecase.flatheadbeacon.com I'll be tweeting throughout with a recap of today when things wrap up #mtclimatecase#mtnews#mtpol
Trial doesn't start for 40 minutes but we've got 25 members of the media gossiping, the plaintiffs are seated and maybe 25 members of the public.
Of note, Mae Nan Ellingson is here- she was a delegate to the 1972 Constitutional Convention and helped enshrine the clean and healthful environment provisions.
Read about that here: mtclimatecase.flatheadbeacon.com/to-a-clean-and…
Who's ready for an 8-hour library trustees retreat?🙋♂️Will I stay awake for it all? Will this be the longest Twitter thread ever? Will there be good coffee? Will the board overthrow all library policy to control over what can be read? Will I hey today's Wordle? Follow along!
This meeting will cover lengthy introductions for the new director, and a number of policy items will be discussed though no action items are on the agenda.
Among the suggested policy changes, put forth by Trustee Adams, are removing ‘all references to Intellectual freedom and other ALA buzzwords’, "Delete anything to do with the ALA Code of Ethics,” remove lines stating the library should challenge censorship….
Alright Twitterverse, start your engines and get ready for today’s @imagineiflib board meeting to discuss the challenges for Lawn Boy and Gender Queer.
@imagineiflib The meeting room at the library is past capacity (48) and people are overflowign upstairs where the meting will be streamed. Public comment is about to start, I think about 10ish people are signed up to speak.
@imagineiflib Board member Connie Leistiko addresed a few issues of misinformation ahead of public comment, namely that the book challenges were brought by citizens, not board members, and that they are adult books and have been shelved as such. #mtnews s