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Financial assistance programs in south central Montana say they expect a busy few months ahead as more residents receive their utility bills.
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Laurel residents and environmental groups challenged the zoning of the property where NorthWestern Energy is building a natural gas plant.
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Scientists took a dozen research flights over major U.S. oil and gas fields to sample flare emissions. They found more methane than was supposed to be there.
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Bob Rowe is retiring after 14 years with Montana's largest electric utility.
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The South Dakota and Nebraska subsidiary will become NorthWestern Energy Prairies Corporation, and the Montana subsidiary will keep the name NorthWestern Corporation. Both will fall under a new holding company, NorthWestern Energy Group.
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Montana is getting $25 million to cap more than 250 orphaned wells — ones left behind in the years before regulation required companies to restore land after drilling it.
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Montana electric cooperatives say insurance liability rates are increasing due to wildfire risk.
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Gas prices in Montana are falling like in other parts of the country, but a gallon of gas and diesel are both more than 20 cents higher than the national average. Tourists in the state are part of the reason gas prices remain at historical highs.
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The city will install EV chargers at two Town Pump stations later this year, bringing the total number of level 2 and level 3 charging stations in Billings to 26.
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Environmental groups say the sales conflict with the Biden administration's promises to tackle climate change. Meanwhile, oil and gas groups say the Biden administration overextended the pause and is creating other barriers to development.
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Montana’s Departments of Environmental Quality and Transportation announced plans to install electric vehicle charging stations every 50 miles on three major interstates, and fill charging gaps on two highways.
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The pause on the new tariffs is a response to uncertainty in the solar power industry at the prospect of retroactive tariffs on imports from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam, which supply the majority of solar panels to the United States.