environment

A longtime environmental advocate and Democratic aide has been nominated by President Joe Biden to oversee roughly a quarter-billion acres of federally owned land in Western states.

At the monthly City Club luncheon on Monday, three different agencies involved in climate issues spoke to the audience about the just released draft of the Climate Ready Missoula Plan.

The Environment Montana Research and Policy Center has released a city-by-city report on air pollution in Montana.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A federal appeals court has struck down pollution rules intended to reduce haze in the atmosphere from the burning of coal in Montana for electricity consumed across the Pacific Northwest. Haze reduces visibility and is caused by nitrogen oxide and sulphur dioxide pollution...

Tuesday afternoon, Lt. Governor Angela McLean presented a group of Hellgate High School students with a certificate of achievement, a banner and a check for $1,000 to help in their recycling efforts at the school.

The University of Montana has received a $45 million cooperative agreement award from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The five-year research award is the largest in the history of UM.

In its fifteenth annual "State of the Air" report, the American Lung Association gave Missoula an "F" for 24-hour particle pollution levels.

On Monday, October 21, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of an environmental group, and agreed to issue a two-week injunction temporarily halting a timber sale harvest in Kootenai National Forest.

Women's Voices for the Earth will be holding a health and environmental summit this Saturday, October 19 in Missoula.

Both Montana Attorney General Tim Fox and Governor Steve Bullock have written letters to Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell in opposition to recently proposed fracking regulations.