(Photo provided by Tim Sheehy for Montana)

Montana GOP Senate candidate Tim Sheehy criticized a recent climate ruling from a Montana judge, months after scrubbing his company’s website of all climate change rhetoric.

On Monday, District Court Judge Kathy Seeley sided with climate activists by saying state agencies were violating their constitutional rights to a clean and healthful environment by allowing companies to develop fossil fuels. This is the first time a U.S. court has ruled against a government for violating constitutional rights for not protecting citizens from climate change. The defendants argued that Montana’s greenhouse gas emissions are not significant enough to affect the climate, which Seeley disagreed with since Montana is a major producer of coal and has substantial gas and oil reserves.

Immediately after the decision, Sheehy took to X (formerly Twitter) to voice his displeasure at the “radical Green New Deal disastrous” policy.

Sheehy founded Bridger Aerospace, a company that specializes in fighting wildfires. According to a report from ABC News, Bridger Aerospace’s website featured the phrase “fighting on the front lines of climate change” as recently as January. Since Sheehy has been tapped by the state’s Republican party to make a U.S. Senate run in 2024, all references to climate change have been removed from his website.

Bridger Aerospace’s website currently calls wildfires a “growing threat.” It is the consensus of domestic and international scientists that consistently drier and hotter weather due to climate change has intensified the frequency and strength of wildfires.

Sheehy has been found flip-flopping as recently as June, when he said student loan borrowers should “pay it back” rather than look for government forgiveness; he previously accepted over $781,000 in forgiven Paycheck Protection Program loans for Bridger Aerospace.

Sheehy is a former U.S. Navy SEAL who has never held public office before. Should he win the Republican primary next June, he will face incumbent Democratic Sen. Jon Tester in November 2024.