The Urgency of Protecting Montana’s Water in the Time of a Collapsing Coal Industry

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The Urgency of Protecting Montana’s Water in the Time of a Collapsing Coal Industry

Guest Post by Shiloh Hernandez, Western Environmental Law Center The Montana Board of Environmental Review recently determined that Montana...

January 13, 2016

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Victory: Expanded Grizzly Bear Protections near Glacier Park

by Kyla Maki On August 31, 2015, the Montana State Land Board unanimously approved a legal settlement between several environmental...

December 23, 2015

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Two Major Victories on Coal Mining and Exports

by Derf Johnson 2015 has been a critical year in the transition from carbon-based fuels such as coal to cleaner energy sources, and MEIC...

December 21, 2015

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Warning: Smith River Mine Application Expected Any Day

by Derf Johnson The application to develop an underground copper mine that would be adjacent to and directly underneath one of the Smith...

December 14, 2015

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Victory: Protecting Clean Water and Preventing Coal Exports

by Anne Hedges Signal Peak Energy wants its Bull Mountain mine to become the largest underground coal mine in the nation. Most of the coal...

October 19, 2015

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The Smith River Mine is NOT a Local Project

By Derf Johnson As Canada based Tintina and Australia based Sandfire ready to submit a permit application for the Smith River mine (As...

October 8, 2015

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Even When You Win You Lose

MEIC wins lawsuit against coal plant – despite erroneous press reports By Anne Hedges This week MEIC and other conservation groups...

June 15, 2015

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Yellowstone River oil pipeline disasters. Wrong again. Wrong again. Wrong again.

TransCanada, the backers of Keystone XL are making similar promises that they are unlikely to honor. by Derf Johnson Most Montanans woke up...

January 20, 2015

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Top 5 Offensive Provisions of the Public Lands Rider

by Anne Hedges “When you’re willing to compromise your principles you’ve given up. You abandon them. When you compromise nature,...

December 4, 2014

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We Know We Are Winning When… the Fossil Fuel Industry Says So

By Anne Hedges Okay, winning might be a stretch – there is no winning with climate change. But the biggest battle-front today...

October 27, 2014

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