DEQ: Ignoring Neighbors Makes Permitting Faster

By Anne Hedges If the speed of permitting is the only metric by which to measure success, then the opencut mining program is a huge...

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Meet Ann Schwend

Montana has been discovered. With so many people wanting to live here, finding affordable housing is a challenge. I have been working in...

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Montana’s Officials Need to Go Back to School

By Cari Kimball The sun isn’t up ’til 6:45am, the breeze through the aspens sounds like the rush of a river, and the school supply...

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Editorial: Governing should happen in public

By the Bozeman Chronicle Editorial Board In response to recent requests for public documents, Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte has maintained...

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How the sweeping Inflation Reduction Act could transform energy development in Montana

By Amanda Eggert, Montana Free Press The Inflation Reduction Act, which President Joe Biden signed into law last week after it passed the...

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Gianforte wields ‘executive privilege’ argument against sensitive records requests

By Amanda Eggert, Montana Free Press Coming into office last year as Montana’s first Republican governor in nearly two decades and...

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PSC hears pushback on new rules, but NorthWestern gives them the nod

By Keila Szpaller, Daily Montanan Just one group offered praise at a hearing Tuesday on an exhaustive revision to the way regulators...

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Administrative and Development Assistant

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‘Big Win’ for Public Lands and Climate as US Judge Reinstates Coal Lease Ban

By Brett Wilkins Climate and Indigenous activists on Friday applauded the reinstatement of an Obama-era moratorium prohibiting new coal...

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Montanans oppose state’s new gravel pit rules, process

By Laura Lundquist, Missoula Current Under a new law, the Montana Department of Environmental Quality no longer considers citizens’...

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