Development threatens one of Montana's 'blue-ribbon' trout rivers — High Country News – Know the West hcn.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from hcn.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Development In A Wealthy Montana Boom Town Is Fouling A World-Class Trout River huffpost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from huffpost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Outfitters, conservation groups to Gianforte: Form a task force to save our trout helenair.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from helenair.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
From USA TODAY Network and wire reports Alabama Montgomery: Alabama public health officials are warning people to avoid eating any fish from some state waterways because of contamination. The state Department of Public Health issued its latest fish consumption advisories this month. They are based on nearly 500 samples of specific fish species taken during the fall of 2020 from 41 bodies of water, health officials said. Restrictions on consumption are broken down by waterbody and presented as the safe number of meals of a species that can be eaten in a given period of time. In some locations, people are advised to avoid all fish. Mercury is often cited as the fish contaminant of concern.
HELENA, Mont. (AP) â Environmental groups are challenging the Montana Department of Environmental Quality for permitting wastewater disposal into the groundwater for a new development in Big Sky that they say could degrade water quality in the Gallatin River downstream from Yellowstone National Park. The Upper Missouri Waterkeeper and Montana Environmental Information Center filed Friday a complaint in Gallatin County court over the departmentâs May decision to approve a groundwater pollution permit for a septic system owned by Lazy J South, a residential and commercial development less than half a mile from the Gallatin River. The groups say that the permit could lead to increased algal blooms in the river, which is already suffering from unprecedented noxious algal blooms downstream from Big Sky. Such blooms could harm recreational activities on the river, including trout fishing and whitewater rafting, according to the court filing.
Organizations challenge state over water pollution permit helenair.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from helenair.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Drilling into solitude: Oil and gas project in the Tendoy Mountains plunges forward helenair.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from helenair.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Water conservation group pursues limits on stormwater pollution in Gallatin County helenair.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from helenair.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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 industries. SB 358 was carried by Sen. John Esp, R-Big Timber, and supported by mining and oil and gas interests as well as municipal government associations. The legislation was necessary they said due to largely unattainable numeric water quality standards set in motion by decade-old legislation.