By Derf Johnson Last week brought some terrible news for those of us in Montana that care about reducing global warming emissions and...
May 16, 2013
Click on the link below to download the May issue of Down to Earth. In this issue: Legislative Summary Senate & House Voting Records...
May 14, 2013
by Derf Johnson Coal mining, especially underground coal mining, is a dangerous occupation that puts workers and citizens at risk, causes...
May 8, 2013
The state Public Service Commission is urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to back off on proposed greenhouse-gas rules for new...
May 1, 2013
The saga of the megaloads in Montana and Idaho reaches a milestone in Canada this weekend. All those loads of oil processing modules that...
April 30, 2013
HELENA — As soon as the news broke that six-term Democratic U.S. Sen. Max Baucus was retiring, all eyes in the Democratic Party turned...
April 29, 2013
Light shines on hundreds of pizza box-shaped containers stacked on rows of shelves when Jerry Zieg opens the door to a dark cavernous metal...
by Anne Hedges The truth lies 180 degrees in the opposite direction The Otter Creek coal mine in southeast Montana will mine twice as much...
April 22, 2013
Volume 20, Number 3 — April 16, 2013 PDF Version Bad Bills are Headed to His Desk! While many of this session’s anti-environment...
April 15, 2013
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS —The “crown jewels” of the Black Butte Copper mine are kept in three velvet-lined boxes, hinting at what might...
April 8, 2013