EPA urged to rewrite or ditch CO2 standards for new coal plants

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EPA urged to rewrite or ditch CO2 standards for new coal plants

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

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Megaload company to start bitumen extraction in Canadian oil sands

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

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Progressive groups look to Schweitzer, but record on guns, environment doesn’t fit label

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

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Copper mine clash: Proposed project raises hopes, concerns

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...

April 29, 2013

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New Montana Coal Export Report is Pure Fiction

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

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Contact Governor Bullock Today!

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

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Copper could bring jobs, money to White Sulphur, but at what cost?

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

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Proposed bill would limit and tax vented natural gas wells

A bill at the Montana Legislature would cut the amount of natural gas that could be vented daily at oil and gas wells by half and tax...

March 25, 2013

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Environmentalists file federal suit over logging on Montana state forests

A 50-year permit for logging and development on Montana state forests faces a federal lawsuit from environmentalists who say the state...

March 19, 2013

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Down to Earth – March 2013

Click on the link below to download the March issue of Down to Earth. In this issue: MEIC’s 40th Anniversary Legislature...

March 15, 2013

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