By Tom Lutey, Billings Gazette
As the public demands Montana regulators toe the line on climate change as a court recently ordered, industrial lobbyists are saying the state’s environmental review is too onerous.
Representatives from the energy, mining and heavy construction industries told the Department of Environmental Quality in Helena and Missoula this week that the state’s permitting law, the Montana Environmental Policy Act (MEPA), had become too complicated after years of amendments by the Montana Legislature.
