At Monday’s flood information briefing, the question was asked, ‘When could flood evacuees begin to return to their homes?’, and the answer is a blow to those displaced by the flood.
On Tuesday, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt announced that his agency was rescinding the 'Waters of the U.S. rule, an announcement that was cheered by many in Montana.
On Sunday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers bowed to pressure from Native American tribes and environmental groups and refused to grant Energy Transfer Partners a permit to run their pipeline under a tribal water source in North Dakota.
The State Department of Criminal Investigations has been handed the case of a former Missoula County Attorney, Fred Van Valkenburg, who removed items from a secure storage facility.