Guest opinion: NorthWestern Energy customers will save with low-cost wind energy

MEIC’s Clean Energy Program Director op-ed in the Billings Gazette: “It’s not often we celebrate something happening at...

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Mining company may need to pay $30M to Montana for pursuing new mines before cleaning up old ones

BILLINGS — Montana officials singled out a mining company president as an industry “bad actor” on Tuesday, and said the...

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Fossil-fuel industries cheer Trump’s regulatory rollback; what’s the impact?

One year into Donald Trump’s presidency, one of his signature achievement has been the rollback of environmental regulations – a move...

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Westmoreland Coal, Teetering Near Bankruptcy, Wants Montana to Let It Build a Bigger Mine

From Bloomberg Environment: The nation’s eighth largest coal company is spiraling deeper into financial crisis, but that’s not stopping...

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Court Upholds Obama Methane Release Rule

“A U.S. District Court judge Thursday ordered the reinstatement of an oil and gas industry regulation that aims to lower harmful methane...

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Westmoreland Coal teetering on the brink

Westmoreland Coal, which owns coal mines in Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota and Texas and Alberta and Saskatchewan, in Canada, is on the...

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Plan to clean up Colstrip ash ponds leaves several tasks undone, environmental group says

Environmental watchdogs are warning Montana officials against letting Talen Energy cut corners in its cleanup of toxic coal ash pods in...

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State of disunion: Montanans view Trump’s first year differently

When asked how Donald Trump did in his first year as president, Al Smith of Vaughn says he knows where to look....

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Montana DOJ Applauds Supreme Court Ruling On WOTUS

Montana Attorney General Tim Fox is praising a U.S. Supreme Court decision that allows legal challenges to the Obama Administration’s...

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Guest opinion: Help Colstrip with utilities’ tax windfall

When you get a big tax return, it’s tempting to spend it right away on a gift or vacation. But we all know it’s responsible to use the...

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