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February 22, 2024

"We Deserve a Livable Future": Climate Defiance Disrupts Event with Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte
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In Washington, D.C., climate activists disrupted an event with Montana
Governor Greg Gianforte, condemning his policies promoting coal
extraction and exacerbating the climate crisis.

Climate Defiance activist: "We will not stand to sit here and listen to
governors talk about things that do not concern us when the pressing
concerns are coming in on all sides. We deserve a livable future. His
children deserve a livable future. All the children of America and of
the world deserve a livable future."

The governor was forced to leave the event after the activists took to
the stage. Among other things, Gianforte enacted a law last year barring
Montana from calculating the climate impacts of major projects.


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