In a speech on Thursday, Max Baucus sounded almost homesick as he spoke of the natural glories of Glacier National Park and the nearby north fork of the Flathead river.
The annual Conservation in the West poll was released this week, Jan. 6, and showed a high level of public ignorance when it comes to energy development on public lands.
The burden of upgrading the transmission lines that transfer energy from Montana to Washington, Oregon and California could fall on local energy consumers.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A conservation group is predicting that ambitious Asian export plans by U.S. coal mining companies could lead to a more than tenfold spike in coal trains through the Northwest.
The Western Organization of Resource Councils said Wednesday that roughly 60 coal trains per day could pass through cities including Billings and Spokane, Wash...