Smith River one step closer to protections from Black Butte Copper Mine after court ruling

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Smith River one step closer to protections from Black Butte Copper Mine after court ruling

The following is a press release from the Montana Environmental Information Center: Meagher County, MT – Montana’s Smith River moves...

April 11, 2022

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Anne Hedges: Gunderson’s opencut law leaves neighbors in the dust

By Anne Hedges, Montana Standard I read the story on the proposed Fire opencut mine near Libby with great interest and frustration. Libby...

April 6, 2022

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Derf Johnson, Scott Bosse, David Brooks: Why we don’t want a mine on the Smith: an open letter to Rob Scargill

By Derf Johnson, Scott Bosse and David Brooks, Billings Gazette Something doesn’t sit right with an Australian CEO living in Canada...

April 6, 2022

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Another Court Says Rosebud Mine Expansion Was Illegal

By Anne Hedges The Rosebud Coal Mine is a large strip mine in sourheastern Montana that provides all of the coal to the Colstrip power...

March 30, 2022

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34 Organizations Sign on to Letter with Requests for Montana’s Regional Haze Program

March 21, 2022 Rhonda Payne Montana Department of Environmental Quality Air Quality Bureau 1520 E 6th Avenue Helena, MT 59620-0901...

March 22, 2022

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From the Executive Director: Mom Guilt

By Cari Kimball I’m writing this on my couch next to my gently snoring preschooler, Ruby. She is home sick. Again. The tenth day out of...

March 5, 2022

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The Mad Rush to Weaken Montana Water Quality Standards

By Derf Johnson Clean rivers aren’t always at the top of our minds in the middle of winter, but due to some very consequential policy...

March 5, 2022

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DEQ Finally Heeds Tribal Concerns about Mining at Zortman-Landusky

By Derf Johnson Last September, at the invitation of the Fort Belknap Indian Community (FBIC), MEIC’s Katy Spence and I joined a number...

March 5, 2022

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The Laurel Generating Station’s Unsafe Pipeline

By Anne Hedges News is scarce regarding how NorthWestern Energy intends to proceed with its proposed methane-fired electricity-generating...

March 5, 2022

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Montana’s Do-Nothing Plan Will Prolong Hazy Skies

By Anne Hedges A hazy day at Glacier National Park. MEIC worked with NPCA and PCEC to host a live webinar about Regional Haze. Watch this...

March 5, 2022

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