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Some private attorneys in western Montana said they would no longer accept cases until the state brought their pay in line with their counterparts in Yellowstone County.
Environmental nonprofit Upper Missouri Waterkeeper filed suit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency last week over its handling of a new Montana law that loosens nutrient pollution regulations in the
"We are never fully staffed in a shift," Montana State Prison Warden Jim Salmonsen said.
What remains unknown is what would occur if the EPA ultimately declines to accept Montana’s narrative rule package as sufficient to meet requirements of the Clean Water Act.
A group litigating variances to Montanaâs water quality standards petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency Monday claiming a new state law runs counter to the agencyâs authority to approve or disprove changes under the Clean Water Act and is a risk to the stateâs waterways. Upper Missouri Waterkeeper filed the petition following the signing of Senate Bill 358 into law by Gov. Greg Gianforte. The new law repeals numeric standards for ânutrients,â namely nitrogen and phosphorus, that are discharged into the stateâs waterways from water treatment plants and in...