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GREAT FALLS, Mont .— Environmental groups filed a lawsuit today against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over a nationwide permit that allows streamlined development of oil and gas pipelines through wetlands, streams and rivers. The lawsuit was filed in federal district court in Montana by the Center for Biological Diversity, Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, Waterkeeper Alliance and Montana Environmental Information Center. In reissuing Nationwide Permit 12, during the final days of the Trump administration, the Corps failed to analyze the environmental impacts of pipelines, including fro...

Rolling Stone Menu The Battle for the Soul of Montana A copper mine threatens the iconic Smith River. It will bring jobs and the copper needed for a renewable-energy future, but is it worth the risk to one of the last pristine waterways? By Geologist Jerry Zieg grew up next to the Smith River in central Montana, on the ranch his family has owned for five generations. The river irrigated their land. He learned to fish from its pristine bounty of westslope cutthroat trout. The river’s russet canyon walls, with 1,000-year-old pictographs drawn by the Besant and...

For Immediate Release, April 15, 2021 Contact: Bonnie Gestring, Earthworks, (406) 549-7361, bgestring@earthworksaction.org Mary Crowe Costello, Rock Creek Alliance, (208) 610-4896, maryrca@rockcreekalliance.org Derf Johnson, MEIC, (406) 443-2520, x 103, djohnson@meic.org Jake Bleich, Defenders of Wildlife, (202) 772-3208, jbleich@defenders.org Andrea Zaccardi, Center for Biological Diversity, (303) 854-7748, azaccardi@biologicaldiversity.org Bonnie Rice, Sierra Club, (406) 582-8365 x 1, bonnie.rice@sierraclub.org Federal Court Halts Proposed Rock Creek Mine in M...

Jake Bleich, Defenders of Wildlife, (202) 772-3208 Andrea Zaccardi, Center for Biological Diversity, (303) 854-7748 Bonnie Rice, Sierra Club, (406) 582-8365, ext. 1 Missoula, MT — The federal district court in Montana on Tuesday invalidated the federal government’s approval of the first phase of the Rock Creek Mine, a major copper and silver mine proposed beneath the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness in northwest Montana. The court ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Forest Service violated the Endangered Species Act by unlawfully ignoring the impacts of t...

To ease housing crisis, GOP lawmakers look to ease development regs KPAX and last updated 2021-04-07 21:06:58-04 HELENA — Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part series on the 2021 Legislature’s actions to address the affordable-housing crisis in Montana As housing prices and rent escalate in many areas of the state, Republicans in the 2021 Legislature are pursuing less regulation on builders and property owners, aimed at speeding development to ease a shortage in housing. “The biggest thing that’s going to drive down pricing, or keep it stable, is a bigger su...