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...

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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...

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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...

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Copper could bring jobs, money to White Sulphur, but at what cost?

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS —The “crown jewels” of the Black Butte Copper mine are kept in three velvet-lined boxes, hinting at what might...

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Proposed bill would limit and tax vented natural gas wells

A bill at the Montana Legislature would cut the amount of natural gas that could be vented daily at oil and gas wells by half and tax...

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Environmentalists file federal suit over logging on Montana state forests

A 50-year permit for logging and development on Montana state forests faces a federal lawsuit from environmentalists who say the state...

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Down to Earth – March 2013

Click on the link below to download the March issue of Down to Earth. In this issue: MEIC’s 40th Anniversary Legislature...

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Senate votes to give renewable energy credits to hydroelectric dams

The state’s largest electric generator, PPL Montana is supporting new legislation giving renewable energy credits to expansions of...

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Colstrip power plant sued over pollution controls

Environmental groups filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against the owners of Montana’s massive Colstrip coal-fired power plant,...

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Lawmakers consider bill to simplify, reduce Montana taxes

A state Senator from Kalispell wants to simplify Montana’s income tax system by repealing many of the tax credits. Senator Bruce Tutvedt...

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