By Cari Kimball This year, Montana is mourning the loss of yet another vital leader with the passing of Michaelynn Hawk. A member of the...
March 5, 2022
Hello readers! It’s an honor and a privilege to join the MEIC team as the Clean Energy Advocate. A little about me: I grew up in New...
By Tom Lutey, Billings Gazette In a plan that allows its largest carbon-emitting asset in Montana to continue burning through 2044,...
March 3, 2022
By Anne Hedges Montana DEQ has an interactive online map of opencut mines at deq.mt.gov/mining/Programs/opencut. The 2021 Legislature...
By Phil Drake, Helena Independent Record A nonprofit group that studies energy issues said Thursday that a project in Utah using small...
February 18, 2022
By Oliver Milman, The Guardian Environmentalists in Montana called it the “death watch”. Following years of financial losses one of...
By Amy Beth Hanson, AP News HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A federal agency failed to adequately analyze the environmental harm that could...
February 17, 2022
By Tom Lutey, Billings Gazette State and federal mine regulators ignored environmental requirements when approving a 70.8-million-ton...
February 15, 2022
By Amanda Eggert, Montana Free Press A federal judge in Billings has issued a preliminary order directing the federal government to redo...
By Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times This is the Feb. 10, 2022, edition of Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the...
February 11, 2022