The Environmental Protection Agency has asked what additional sampling Montanans want at a local Superfund site but balked at agreeing to many of the proposals offered.
The Environmental Protection Agency recently released its update to the lead and copper rule, and Environment Montana says the rule falls far short of the action needed to ‘get the lead out’ of America’s, and specifically Montana’s drinking water.
The State of Montana has had a long-standing disagreement with the federal government after the EPA shifted how it read and enforced a rule called the ‘Waters of the U.S.’ or WOTUS.
After the announcement by the Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday rolling back what has been called federal overreach by former President Obama’s Waters of the U.S. rule, Environment Montana issued a press release condemning the decision.
Monies obtained for damages to natural resources from years of pollution at the Smurfit Stone mill site in Frenchtown will be split between a group of Trustees, before the actual cleanup costs have been determined.
The Montana Department of Justice Natural Resource Damage Program issued a press release on Monday stating that damages at the Smurfit Stone Frenchtown mill site will be the subject of a ‘pre-assessment screen’.
State Senator Al Olszewski attended the first ever sunrise Memorial Day service in Missoula on Monday, and honored the fallen, including those who committed suicide.
The federal on-scene coordinator with the Environmental Protection Agency’s Emergency Response Unit, Marty McComb and one other EPA official are in Missoula to test the berms and the toxins at the former Smurfit-Stone mill site