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Coal Mining Companies Want to Mine 215 Million Tons of Coal in Montana, Equivalent to The Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Over 92 million...

April 19, 2018

BIG Opportunity for Climate Action April 18th

For the first time ever, NorthWestern Energy is hosting a public meeting regarding its long-term energy plan (officially called a Resource...

April 12, 2018

Solar Study’s Findings Suspicious, in Need of Further Review

Montana’s largest private utility, NorthWestern Energy, recently released a benefit-cost study of distributed solar (i.e. rooftop...

April 11, 2018

Guest opinion: NorthWestern Energy customers will save with low-cost wind energy

MEIC’s Clean Energy Program Director op-ed in the Billings Gazette: “It’s not often we celebrate something happening at...

April 6, 2018

Mining company may need to pay $30M to Montana for pursuing new mines before cleaning up old ones

BILLINGS — Montana officials singled out a mining company president as an industry “bad actor” on Tuesday, and said the...

March 22, 2018

Fossil-fuel industries cheer Trump’s regulatory rollback; what’s the impact?

One year into Donald Trump’s presidency, one of his signature achievement has been the rollback of environmental regulations – a move...

March 8, 2018

Westmoreland Coal, Teetering Near Bankruptcy, Wants Montana to Let It Build a Bigger Mine

From Bloomberg Environment: The nation’s eighth largest coal company is spiraling deeper into financial crisis, but that’s not stopping...

March 5, 2018

Court Upholds Obama Methane Release Rule

“A U.S. District Court judge Thursday ordered the reinstatement of an oil and gas industry regulation that aims to lower harmful methane...

February 26, 2018

Press Release: BLM’s methane waste rule back in force following court decision

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 23, 2018...

February 23, 2018