Another (!) Expansion of the Rosebud Coal Mine Ruled Illegal

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Another (!) Expansion of the Rosebud Coal Mine Ruled Illegal

By Derf Johnson MEIC’s Derf Johnson (center) at the Area F site with Earthjustice’s Shiloh Hernandez (left) and former MEIC board...

December 5, 2022

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NorthWestern Energy Wants Customers to Pay $364 More Each Year

By Anne Hedges As reported in the last issue of Down to Earth, NorthWestern Energy is asking the Montana Public Service Commission to allow...

December 5, 2022

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Another Challenge to NorthWestern’s Methane Plant Near Laurel

By Anne Hedges In October, Earthjustice, on behalf of the Thiel Road Coalition, MEIC, and Northern Plains Resource Council, asked a state...

December 5, 2022

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Nuclear at Colstrip? Not so fast.

By Anne Hedges On October 20, 2022, there was a meeting in Colstrip to discuss the idea of placing experimental small scale nuclear...

December 5, 2022

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Does Montana need fossil fuels to keep the lights on? (Hint: No)

By Ian Lund Recently, the Montana Public Service Commission (PSC) opened an investigation on “resource adequacy.” Generally speaking,...

December 5, 2022

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NorthWestern’s Long-Term Energy Plan Ignores Clean Energy… Again

By Ian Lund Ian Lund traveled to several cities in Montana to discuss the IRP with community members. MEIC will also host a virtual meeting...

December 5, 2022

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CHS Water Pollution: Dead Minnows, Arsenic, and Broken Dreams

By Derf Johnson The CHS Refinery in Laurel, Montana. Photo via Helena  Independent Record. The Montana Department of Environmental Quality...

December 5, 2022

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Victory in Big Sky at the Lazy J Subdivision

By Derf Johnson The Lazy J South subdivision is threatening an already-impaired Gallatin River. Image via Upper Missouri Waterkeeper. In a...

December 5, 2022

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Mining Beneath the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness: An Update

By Derf Johnson Readers of Down to Earth and long-time MEIC members are likely quite familiar with the proposed Montanore and Rock Creek...

December 5, 2022

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Eventually, A River Runs Brew It

By Katy Spence A lively Q&A followed the panelists’ remarks at Imagine Nation in Missoula. After being shelved by a global pandemic,...

December 5, 2022

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