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British Columbia coal mining company Teck Resources has agreed to pay a $60 million fine for polluting rivers upstream of Lake Koocanusa.
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The first application period for $10 million in transition funds is now open for workers and communities affected by last year’s closures at two of the Colstrip power plant’s four units.
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Montana’s economic performance in 2020 will go down as the worst in its post war history, but economists say a flood of federal relief dollars have largely buoyed incomes and the state’s recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The Bureau of Business and Economic Research at the University of Montana held its annual economic outlook seminar this week and told the story of Montana’s industries.
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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A judge says U.S. officials downplayed climate change impacts and other environmental costs from the expansion of a massive coal mine near the Montana-Wyoming border.
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Another round of coal mine layoffs is scheduled to take effect Monday in southeast Montana, the part of the state most dependent on coal revenue.
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State environmental regulators Friday approved new standards for a heavy metal in Lake Koocanusa and the Kootenai River.
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NorthWestern Energy, Montana’s largest utility, will assume the entire cost of replacement power for roughly three months in 2018 when part of the Colstrip Steam Electric Station was taken offline after it violated federal clean air laws.
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The operator of the Colstrip coal-fired power plant submitted its cleanup plan for parts of the plant it shuttered early this year.
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The expansion of a British Columbia coal mine upstream of Lake Koocanusa and the Kootenai River will undergo review from the federal Canadian government...
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A coal mining company that works in Montana filed a request in May for a judicial review of a recently changed rule for power plant air emissions…