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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...

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. The Court ruled that Idaho-based Hecla Mining Company and its subsidiary Montanore Minerals Corporatio...