environment

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Montana officials are investigating several sites where they've found suspected oil left over from an Exxon Mobil pipeline break last year, but say at least one such site has turned out to be crude-free. The July 1 accident spilled an estimated 63,000 gallons of crude into the Yellowstone River near Laurel...

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — U.S. Forest Service workers have exchanged axes and saws for sticks of high explosives in southwestern Montana to bring down beetle-killed pine trees that pose unique dangers. Crew member Gordon Ash says workers brought down some 500 trees last week in the Pioneer Mountains by blowing up the trunks...

So many issues and problems are circling around us right now that the environment can fall pretty low on the list of our priorities. Heck, making sure we have clean socks on everyday is a more pressing environmental priority.

An environmental group has filed a lawsuit to stop the hazing of bison because of the damage it could cause to grizzly bear populations.

GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) — BNSF Railway Company has offered a $36 million settlement in a lawsuit filed by landowners who alleged pollutants from the Livingston Rail Yard migrated through the groundwater and soil onto private and public property nearby...

Attorneys representing Livingston landowners in a pollution suit against BNSF Railway Co. are asking jurors to consider whether BNSF acted as a good neighbor during decades of Livingston operations.

Sustainable transportation is already pretty popular in Missoula, but the annual Bike Walk Bus Week is designed to entice even more Missoula residents to try using alternative methods of getting around. The week is packed full of events, seminars, activities and incentives (read: free stuff ...

The U.S. Forest Service is attempting to grow whitebark pine that are resistant to blister rust as part of an effort to prevent the high-elevation tree from dying out in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The Greater Yellowstone Whitebark Pine Committee has been recognized by the Arbor Day Foundation for its efforts to protect and restore whitebark pine trees. The Montana, Wyoming and Idaho-based Greater Yellowstone Whitebark Pine Committee is one of 16 individuals and organizations to be recognized by the foundation...

Would you buy a $50 light bulb? Before you answer, consider this: it’ll last you upwards of 20 years and pay for itself several times over.