Press Release: Tribes, Conservation Groups Vow Continued Fight Against Irresponsible Mining After “Bad Actor” Retirement

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Press Release: Tribes, Conservation Groups Vow Continued Fight Against Irresponsible Mining After “Bad Actor” Retirement

Phillips Baker, Jr., retires from Hecla Mining Company leaving unreclaimed mining disasters behind   CONTACTS Shiloh Hernandez,...

July 11, 2024

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Congress Moving in Wrong Direction with Passage of ADVANCE Act

by Nick Fitzmaurice In 1978, Montanans passed an initiative with the support of 65% of the voters to require a vote of the public to...

July 9, 2024

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From a Board Member: Beth Taylor-Wilson

By Beth Taylor-Wilson “There is No Wealth on a Dead Planet.” So said a sign I saw at a recent climate rally full of young activists....

July 1, 2024

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OSM Rejects Legislation that Weakened Water Protections

By Derf Johnson Protecting Montana’s water is no easy task. It’s about tenacity, buckling up for the long-haul, being nimble and...

July 1, 2024

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Montana and Wyoming BLM to Phase Out Federal Coal Leasing

By Derf Johnson VICTORY – In a historic shift, indicative of the dramatic movement towards cleaner sources of energy, the Biden...

July 1, 2024

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Senator Daines Carries Water for Corrupt Coal Corporation

By Derf Johnson Barrels upon barrels of ink have been spilled on news stories covering the criminal enterprise in the Bull Mountains known...

July 1, 2024

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EPA Releases Greenhouse Gas Rule for Power Plants

By Anne Hedges As record-breaking temperatures and atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHG) reach unprecedented levels (426.9...

July 1, 2024

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Montanans Don’t Deserve Highest Coal Plant Pollution Rate in the Nation

By Anne Hedges The Colstrip plant in eastern Montana is the nation’s number one bad actor for toxic air pollution. Colstrip Unit 4 has...

July 1, 2024

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Supreme Court Hears MEIC Challenge to NorthWestern Gas Plant

By Anne Hedges Is the Montana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) required to consider climate change when it analyzes a large...

July 1, 2024

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An Opportunity to Protect the Smith

By Derf Johnson For over a decade, MEIC and our partners have engaged in a prolonged fight to prevent the Smith River Mine (aka the Black...

July 1, 2024

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