Study: Pollution in North Dakota- how bad is it?
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A legal dispute in Montana could drastically curb the government’s use of aerial fire retardant to combat wildfires. Environmentalists have sued the U.S. Forest Service over waterways being polluted with the potentially toxic red slurry that’s dropped from aircraft. Forest Service officials have acknowledged more than 200 cases of retardant landing in water. But they say it's an important fire fighting tool and that the environmental damage from fires can be much greater than the pollution from retardant. A coalition including California communities where 85 p...