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PSC saved consumers $8 million with decision

Who should pay when a coal plant breaks down? That was the question before the Montana Public Service Commission recently after one of the...

June 21, 2016

Deal in methane pollution dispute would bring little change

BILLINGS – The U.S. government has reached an agreement to end a dispute over greenhouse gas emissions from federal oil and gas leases...

June 20, 2016

Judge says waste water from Colstrip coal plant ponds is ‘alarming’

A state judge expressed alarm at the estimated 200 million gallons of contaminated water seeping annually from leaky ash-storage ponds at a...

June 20, 2016

Otter Creek: A Landscape Spared

by Derf Johnson Seldom visited and population sparse southeastern Montana is one of the more incredible and unique places in the state....

June 3, 2016

Colstrip operator wants out in 2 years or less

BILLINGS – The company that keeps the coal-fired Colstrip power plant running has notified five of its owners that they’ll need a new...

June 2, 2016

Montana PBS Presents: The Future of Colstrip

As the coal industry faces one setback after another, MontanaPBS News & Public Affairs Producer Beth Saboe looks at how the conflict...

May 24, 2016

Top 6 Reasons Why Montana Should Throw in the Towel on the Otter Creek Coal Mine

by Anne Hedges The Otter Creek mine is dead. It’s time to admit it and move on. The landscape has so fundamentally changed over the last...

April 29, 2016

Montana Transportation Commission considering rule allowing digital billboards

The Montana Department of Transportation is considering a rule change that would allow, for the first time, digital billboards to be...

April 19, 2016

Montana’s largest wind farm quietly develops northeast of Colstrip

The power plant-sized transmission lines connecting coal-fired Colstrip Power Plant to the Pacific Northwest have attracted a new...

April 19, 2016

Group lists Smith River as fourth most endangered stream in U.S.

A national environmental group has listed the Smith River as one of the most endangered streams in the nation for the second year in a row...

April 12, 2016