EPA

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Residents of a Montana mining community where thousands have been sickened by asbestos exposure will weigh in this week on a proposal to leave the dangerous material behind in many houses and buildings. The Environmental Protection Agency has spent more than $540 million to date removing asbestos from the neighboring towns of Libby and Troy in northwest Montana...

A University of Montana student is recovering from a hantavirus infection that left him hospitalized for nine days.

New EPA rules for wood burning stoves are going to tighten up regulations on sellers and manufacturers of stoves and heaters, but Guy Hanson from Missoula’s Axmen says the updated rules are a welcome change. "They address a lot of the new technology more accurately and they fix some of the quirks of the old law," Hanson said...

Montana Attorney General Tim Fox has written a letter to protest a proposed rule change by the EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

A new Paragon Insights poll of 668 likely Montana Voters shows a plurality of opposition to proposed new EPA regulations on carbon emissions from power plants. While 39 percent supported the regulations, 49 percent opposed.

Dozens of city, county, state and business leaders invited the public on a sunny Friday afternoon to the official opening of Missoula's Silver Park.

The Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday, October 23, that it would be holding listening sessions across the U.S. to get feedback on proposed coal plant regulations. The problem, according to a press release from the Montana Attorney General's office, is that the tour "skips coal country altogether."

Three Montana state departments issued warnings today, October 17, about eating fish caught below the old Smurfit-Stone mill site on the Clark Fork river.

The Flower Creek Dam in Libby is leaking. It was set for repairs this year, however, Libby Mayor Doug Roll says that a recent delay by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is putting his city at risk. "Well, the fact is that any kind of seismic event would probably cause collapse," said Roll...

On May 31, Green Investment Group, the company that has purchased the former Smurfit-Stone Container site and renamed it the Frenchtown Technology and Industrial Center, announced the sale of an Ohio property after completion of environmental cleanup at the site.