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School funding bill gets hearing: Plan increases stability for districts, supporters claim

School supporters from Ekalaka to Kalispell urged members of the Montana Senate’s education and cultural resources committee on Wednesday...

February 1, 2013

Lawmakers muddy the water on renewable energy standard

No one disputes that hydroelectricity is a renewable energy source. But Montana lawmakers are again considering whether power from dams...

January 26, 2013

Montana Republicans seek business tax cuts

Montana Republican leaders pitched their plans Wednesday to cut business equipment taxes and argued that the state’s clean energy tax...

January 23, 2013

“FrackNation” documentary stirs debate

HELENA – The controversy surrounding the process of hydraulic fracturing – “fracking” – continues to grow in...

January 23, 2013

PSC chair pulls plug on report

HELENA — Supporters of small, renewable electricity producers say the chairman of the Montana Public Service Commission removed a report...

January 21, 2013

Power industry, environmentalists behind study of Montana’s renewable-power mandate

HELENA — Utility companies and environmental groups on Thursday spoke in favor of a proposed legislative study of Montana’s nearly...

January 18, 2013

Renewable Energy in Montana Threatened by 2013 Legislative Session

By Kyla Maki This Tuesday the Senate Energy committee heard SB 31 (Sen. Debbie Barrett, R-Dillon). This bill would allow existing...

January 17, 2013

Women and Montana’s 2013 Legislative Session

How do women lobbyists defend what we care about? What can you do? Amy Cilimburg talks with Janet Ellis (Montana Audubon) and Anne Hedges...

January 16, 2013

MEIC releases rebuttal to University of Montana coal study

The Montana Environmental Information Center on Tuesday released a 22-page rebuttal to a University of Montana coal study . . . <READ...

January 15, 2013

Environmentalists seek more Otter Creek hearings

HELENA — Environmental groups on Monday urged the state to hold hearings on the proposed Otter Creek mine in cities where the coal would...

January 15, 2013