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Oil leasing dispute heads to federal court

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A dispute over greenhouse gases from oil and gas drilling will head to federal court in Montana as attorneys for...

May 28, 2013

Montana Global Warming Emissions Continue to Increase

By Derf Johnson Last week brought some terrible news for those of us in Montana that care about reducing global warming emissions and...

May 16, 2013

Signal Peak Energy Violates Safety Standards and Disputes Fines

by Derf Johnson Coal mining, especially underground coal mining, is a dangerous occupation that puts workers and citizens at risk, causes...

May 8, 2013

EPA urged to rewrite or ditch CO2 standards for new coal plants

The state Public Service Commission is urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to back off on proposed greenhouse-gas rules for new...

May 1, 2013

Megaload company to start bitumen extraction in Canadian oil sands

The saga of the megaloads in Montana and Idaho reaches a milestone in Canada this weekend. All those loads of oil processing modules that...

April 30, 2013

Progressive groups look to Schweitzer, but record on guns, environment doesn’t fit label

HELENA — As soon as the news broke that six-term Democratic U.S. Sen. Max Baucus was retiring, all eyes in the Democratic Party turned...

April 29, 2013

Copper mine clash: Proposed project raises hopes, concerns

Light shines on hundreds of pizza box-shaped containers stacked on rows of shelves when Jerry Zieg opens the door to a dark cavernous metal...

April 29, 2013

New Montana Coal Export Report is Pure Fiction

by Anne Hedges The truth lies 180 degrees in the opposite direction The Otter Creek coal mine in southeast Montana will mine twice as much...

April 22, 2013

Contact Governor Bullock Today!

Volume 20, Number 3 — April 16, 2013 PDF Version Bad Bills are Headed to His Desk! While many of this session’s anti-environment...

April 15, 2013