By Laura Lundquist, Missoula Current
Four months after the state of Montana took a review board to court regarding selenium pollution in Lake Koocanusa, four conservation groups are suing not only the review board but also a Canadian coal mining company and the Lincoln County commission.
Two Montana and two Idaho conservation groups last week asked a Lewis and Clark County district judge to rule against the Montana Board of Environmental Review, the Lincoln County commissioners and Canada-based Teck Coal Limited, a subsidiary of Teck Resources, saying the recent reversal of Montana’s site-specific water quality standard for selenium in Lake Koocanusa was erroneous and went beyond the authority of the Board of Environmental Review.
