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Governor Gianforte: Enforce Montana’s “Bad Actor” Mining Law

Perpetrators of a $2.3 million fraud against Peterborough taxpayers over the summer initiated the criminal enterprise by compromising the email of one town employee, according to a timeline prepared by local officials.While simple human failure to...

State environmental regulators last month dropped their case to disqualify Hecla Mining from getting future mining permits in the state. The company’s CEO was previously an executive with Pegasus Gold, which abandoned mines near the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in the ‘90s. It cost taxpayers $35 million to clean up. Now, seven groups, including the Fort Belknap Indian Community, the Montana Environmental Information Center and Earthjustice plan to sue the state. In a motion filed Monda...

In a reversal, Montana’s Department of Environmental Quality won’t press for “bad actor” sanctions against Hecla Mining Co. executive Phillips Baker for leaving unfinished reclamation work on several past gold mines. Under former Gov. Steve Bullock’s administration, DEQ had attempted to use Montana’s Bad Actor law to prohibit Baker from working with Hecla to develop new copper and silver mines next to the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness in Lincoln County. Phillips S. ...

Everything you wanted to know about crypto offerings but were afraid to ask With Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Jay Clayton making the public announcement last July he believes every ICO he’s seen is a security, every company in the cryptocurrency, blockchain and token world was put on notice that raising capital by selling coins or tokens was entering a different phase in the United States. As a result, securities lawyers like Washington DC-based attorney Kendall Almerico, have bee...

Montana’s “Bad Actor” law does apply to an Idaho-based mining company and its executives for the pollution problems they left at a closed gold mine near Malta, a state judge

Neil Richards’ Ancient Loyalties, Christopher Cerrone’s The Arching Path, Mister Ott’s In the Flow and Elsen Price’s The Life Long Daydreamer.

Victory: Ruling rejects company’s bid to rely on decades-old pollution standards to contaminate streams Contacts Bonnie Gestring, Earthworks, (406) 546-8386, bgestring@earthworksaction.org Derf Johnson, MEIC, (406) 581-4634, djohnson@meic.org Helena, MT — Yesterday in a victory for clean water, the Montana Supreme Court rejected a key pollution permit for the proposed Montanore silver-copper mine in the Cabinet Mountain Wilderness in Northwest Montana. Th...