Check back regularly for updates on ways you can protect Montana’s clean and healthful environment!
Tell BLM: Reject Expansion of the Decker Coal Strip Mine
Decker Coal Mine, Montana
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is considering whether to allow a foreign corporation to expand its coal strip mining operations at the Decker coal mine in southeast Montana. We need you to contact the BLM today. <TAKE ACTION NOW>
Tell the PSC that Public Utility Executive Salaries are Public Information!
The Montana Public Service Commission (PSC) has proposed repealing a rule that requires public utilities to disclose the salaries and benefits of its three highest paid executives. In 2010 the PSC adopted the rule because it believed that the ratepayers, who pay utility executives’ salaries, should know how much those executives are making. <TAKE ACTION NOW>
Mining Industry Attack on Clean Water
SB 347 has passed both the Montana Senate and House of Representatives, and is headed to the Governor. This bill threatens Montana's clean water. Please take action today by contacting Governor Steve Bullock, and request that he veto this dangerous legislation. <TAKE ACTION>
Arch Coal Doesn’t Want You to Comment
The Montana Department of Environmental Quality is accepting comments on the sufficiency of Arch Coal's permit application. We need you to take action and comment every single step of the way, and to help stop this disastrous proposal! <TAKE ACTION NOW>
THE CHOICE IS CLEAR. Generational farms and ranches, clean water, and abundant wildlife, OR poisoned water, strip-mined land, coal train traffic, and climate change. The Montana Department of Environmental Quality recently chose to approve the first round of permitting for 1.3 billion tons of coal at Otter Creek. <TAKE ACTION NOW>
Take Two Actions Today to Stop Coal Mining at Otter Creek and its Railroad
When it rains it pours. There are two actions you should take today if you want to say NO to turning the Otter Creek valley into a massive open pit coal strip mine to feed demand for dirty coal in Asia. <TAKE ACTION NOW>
Stop Baucus from Polluting Our Water
Baucus has co-sponsored the Coal Ash Recycling and Oversight Act of 2012, a bill that will allow out of state corporations like Pennyslvania Power and Light to continue polluting our water with toxics and heavy metals, and we need you to contact him today! <ACT NOW>
Another Yellowstone Oil Disaster?
Stop the Proposal to Pollute Montana’s Rivers with Dirty Keystone XL Tar Sands Oil. The Montana Land Board is considering ram-rodding a proposal forward to run the TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline directly across the Yellowstone River, before the Department of State finishes the environmental analysis and determines whether the pipeline is even in the national interest! <TAKE ACTION NOW>
Expanded Coal Mining in Montana?
Tell DEQ what issues matter to you: The 11th largest open-pit coal strip mine in the United States is looking to expand, and we need you to speak up today and help protect our water and air and fight climate change! <TAKE ACTION NOW>
Support Clean Energy Incentives for Montana!
Important incentives for renewable energy development will be eliminated at the end of 2012 if Congress doesn’t act quickly to extend them. The renewable energy production tax credit (PTC) is the primary incentive in jeopardy of elimination this year. <TAKE ACTION NOW>
