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
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
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
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS —The “crown jewels” of the Black Butte Copper mine are kept in three velvet-lined boxes, hinting at what might...
April 8, 2013
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...
March 25, 2013
A 50-year permit for logging and development on Montana state forests faces a federal lawsuit from environmentalists who say the state...
March 19, 2013
Click on the link below to download the March issue of Down to Earth. In this issue: MEIC’s 40th Anniversary Legislature...
March 15, 2013
The state’s largest electric generator, PPL Montana is supporting new legislation giving renewable energy credits to expansions of...
March 12, 2013
Environmental groups filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against the owners of Montana’s massive Colstrip coal-fired power plant,...
March 6, 2013
A state Senator from Kalispell wants to simplify Montana’s income tax system by repealing many of the tax credits. Senator Bruce Tutvedt...
February 24, 2013