NEPA Rollback Info Page

Jul 1, 2019 | Climate & Energy

Trump administration proposes gutting environmental protections The U.S. Forest Service has proposed a rule to overhaul its environmental analysis procedures under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), which will dramatically curtail the role the public and...

Stopping the Bull Mountain Mine Expansion

Apr 23, 2014 | Climate & Energy

Stopping the Bull Mountain Mine Expansion In the foothills of central Montana near Roundup, we kept 170 million tons of coal in the ground in 2017. We defeated the Bull Mountains/Signal Peak Mine expansion, arguing that the agency’s analysis of impacts to water...

VICTORY! Montana Exempt Well Loophole

Mar 20, 2014 | Wildlands

VICTORY! Montana Exempt Well Loophole Rural homeowners, ranchers, and farmers in Montana and other western states have long relied on a provision of the law that affords them the opportunity to drill a small well without first obtaining a permit. It’s an approach that...

VICTORY! Rosebud Coal Mine Clean Water Act Challenge

Feb 20, 2014 | Climate & Energy

VICTORY! Rosebud Coal Mine Clean Water Act Challenge When the Montana Department of Environmental Quality issued a Montana Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (MPDES) permit – a permit to discharge pollution- to the Rosebud coal mine that does not protect...

Oil & Gas Drilling Lease Climate Challenge

Sep 6, 2012 | Climate & Energy

Montana Oil & Gas Drilling Lease Climate Challenge In Montana, leaky oil & gas drilling operations on public lands emit 1.8 billion cubic feet of methane (and perhaps far more) to the atmosphere each year. Over a 20-year lifetime of development, keeping this...