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The Gray Area
Gray wolves under attack, groups want them re-listed |
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28 Apr 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 1:03 PM on 28 Apr 2008 Saying that their concerns about trigger-happy hunters have been validated, 12 conservation and animal-rights groups have sued to get the gray wolf re-listed as an endangered species. The 1,500 wolves that roam through Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho were delisted on Mar. 28 and can now be shot at will; a total of 37 have been killed in the last month. Conservation groups filed suit Monday, saying th ... |
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| Topics: animal welfare, endangered species, Idaho, litigation, Montana, news, wildlife, Wyoming (all these topics) |
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Haul From Grace
W.R. Grace will finally pay Montana asbestos victims |
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08 Apr 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 3:01 PM on 08 Apr 2008 W.R. Grace & Co. has agreed to pay some $3 billion in cash and equity to settle lawsuits filed on behalf of people injured or killed by asbestos in the company's products. Grace operated a vermiculite mine near Libby, Mont., from 1963 to 1990, infamously coating the town with asbestos fibers. The company went bankrupt in 2001 after more than 100,000 asbestos-related claims were filed agains ... |
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| Topics: business, litigation, mining, Montana, news, toxics (all these topics) |
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Mars Attack
Judge rules that natural-gas company can drill on billionaire's land |
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09 Jan 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 2:53 PM on 09 Jan 2008 When we picture candy billionaire Forrest Mars, we imagine him diving into pools of M&Ms à la the coin-swimming revelry of Scrooge McDuck. That said, Mars' attempts to keep oil and gas drills off of his Montana land were foiled yesterday, when a state judge ruled that Pinnacle Gas Resources has the right to access gas reserves underneath Mars' ranch. Drilling is likely to commen ... |
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| Topics: energy, Montana, news, oil and gas drilling (all these topics) |
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Mission of Mars
Reclusive candy billionaire opposes drilling near his Montana land |
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08 Jan 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 10:58 AM on 08 Jan 2008 Ranchers and conservationists fighting to keep drills out of coal and gas deposits along Montana's Tongue River are finding an ally in landowner and reclusive billionaire Forrest E. Mars Jr., former CEO of the Mars candy company. Sweet. From the Archives Let Your Commission Be Your Guide. Federal Trade Commission reviews environmental marketing guidelines ... |
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| Topics: energy, Montana, news, oil and gas drilling (all these topics) |
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Pits and Starts
Organisms living in toxic waste pit may help fight cancer |
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09 Oct 2007 |
News |
| Posted at 3:05 PM on 09 Oct 2007 Montana's Berkeley Pit, containing 40 billion gallons of poisonous copper-mine runoff including arsenic, aluminum, cadmium, and zinc, has two claims to fame. One, it once killed a flock of hundreds of geese the moment they touched down on its surface. Two, the 40-billion-gallon pit houses 142 organisms -- some of which have shown success in killing breast and ovarian cancer cells. Remind u ... |
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| Topics: Montana, news, scientific research, toxics (all these topics) |
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Fall From Grace
Charges reinstated against company that allegedly exposed small town to asbestos |
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21 Sep 2007 |
News |
| Posted at 1:56 PM on 21 Sep 2007 The long-running legal battle over whether chemical company W.R. Grace knowingly exposed thousands of residents of Libby, Mont., to asbestos has taken an upswing: an appeals court has reinstated environmental and conspiracy charges against the company, which were thrown out by a federal judge last year. Next stop, trial; if convicted, Grace could be fined up to $280 ... |
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| Topics: litigation, mining, Montana, news, toxics (all these topics) |
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Tester kills liquid coal amendment
We knew we liked that guy |
David Roberts |
07 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: coal, energy, legislation, Montana, politics (all these topics) |
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Boise Will Be Boys
As feds prepare to delist gray wolf in Idaho and Montana, hunters polish their rifles |
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16 Jan 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Boise Will Be Boys As feds prepare to delist gray wolf in Idaho and Montana, hunters polish their rifles In Idaho and Montana, the impending removal of Endangered Species Act protections for the gray wolf has sportsfolk salivating. The wolf, reintroduced to the region a decade ago, is blamed for killing elk and other critters that hunters want around so they can kill 'em themselves. At a rally in Idaho last ... |
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| Topics: Idaho, Montana, news, United Kingdom, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Grace to the Bottom
W.R. Grace must pay to clean up asbestos mess in Montana, Supreme Court decides |
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11 Oct 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Grace to the Bottom W.R. Grace must pay to clean up asbestos mess in Montana, Supreme Court decides W.R. Grace & Co. must pay $54.5 million to remove asbestos-contaminated soil from the mining town of Libby, Mont., the Supreme Court decided yesterday. The U.S. EPA sued the company five years ago to recover cleanup costs; a lower court ruled in the agency's favor an ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, mining and drilling, Montana, news, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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The Big Glad Wolf
Wolf population thriving in Rocky Mountain states |
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29 Sep 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| The Big Glad Wolf Wolf population thriving in Rocky Mountain states The wolf population in the Northern Rocky Mountains has grown by more than 20 percent since last winter. Officials estimate that 158 wolf packs, totaling at least 1,229 members, are living it up in Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming. The midyear estimate is the highest population estimate since wolves were reintroduced to the region in 1995 and 1996; how ... |
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| Topics: Idaho, Montana, news, wildlife, Wyoming (all these topics) |
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Take Your Pick
Environmentalists pick their sides in key Senate races |
Amanda Griscom Little |
14 Sep 2006 |
Muckraker |
| It's a rare political event that can draw applause from both the White House and environmental groups, but Lincoln Chafee's victory in the Rhode Island Republican primary on Tuesday was just that. Lincoln Chafee. The Bush administration reasons that Chafee -- the most liberal Republican in the Senate, and frequently at odds with Bush on hot-button issues from Iraq to tax cuts -- is their on ... |
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| Topics: elections, League of Conservation Voters, Missouri, Montana, Muckraker, Pennsylvania, politics, Rhode Island, Sierra Club, US Senate, Washington (all these topics) |
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Wonder If New Orleans Wrote Them a Recommendation Letter
Army Corps can continue its Missouri River meddling, Supreme Court says |
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26 Apr 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Wonder If New Orleans Wrote Them a Recommendation Letter Army Corps can continue its Missouri River meddling, Supreme Court says In bad news for enviros (why are we always saying that?), the Supreme Court has declined to hear challenges in three cases questioning the Army Corps of Engineers' authority on the Missouri River. With authority now decidedly in hand, the Corps ... |
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| Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Missouri River, Montana, news, North Dakota, South Dakota (all these topics) |
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Ice Knowing You
Enviros seek endangered status for Glacier National Park |
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17 Feb 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Ice Knowing You Enviros seek endangered status for Glacier National Park Greenland's not the only place where the glaciers, they are a-melting. Montana's Glacier National Park has lost over half its icy cover, and eco-activists have petitioned the United Nations to declare it endangered by global warming -- hoping to force U.S. policy makers to act on reducing the nation's greenhouse-gas emissions. Since Glac ... |
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| Topics: Montana, national parks, news, United Nations (all these topics) |
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Wild to Be Born
Montana's landscape is changing -- will America's be next? |
Rick Bass |
18 Jan 2006 |
Main Dish |
| The governor is a politician of such breathtaking dexterity, ability, and raw, hungry, political instinct that your first thought upon witnessing him -- no matter whether you're a Republican or Democrat -- is likely to be, "When does he explode, and in what manner?" For rarely in American politics has anyone this good been that way indefinitely. Gov. Brian Schweitzer. Brian Schweitzer ha ... |
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| Topics: Montana, politics, wilderness (all these topics) |
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Bisons to Kill
Bison reintroduced to Montana prairie, and hunted near Yellowstone |
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17 Nov 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Bisons to Kill Bison reintroduced to Montana prairie, and hunted near Yellowstone Oh give us a home where the buffalo rooooaaam ... Forgive us, we're inspired: Even as we sing, 16 bison are being released onto about 30,000 acres of their ancestral Montana prairie in an attempt to reintroduce the species in the wild there. It's just one of several collaborative projects aiming to return the Great Plains to ecological balance and rep ... |
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| Topics: Montana, news, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Hustle and Flow
Montana and mining companies to fund massive river cleanup, restoration |
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03 Aug 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Hustle and Flow Montana and mining companies to fund massive river cleanup, restoration An historic financial settlement between the state of Montana and two mining firms has opened the door to a project of ecological scope virtually unprecedented in the U.S.: the removal of Montana's Milltown dam, located at the confluence of the Clark Fork and Blackfoot rivers, and the restoratio ... |
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| Topics: dams, energy, mining and drilling, Montana, news, rivers and watersheds (all these topics) |
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Undermined
Ruling halts proposed mine under wilderness area, for now |
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31 Mar 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Undermined Ruling halts proposed mine under wilderness area, for now Plans to build a massive copper and silver mine beneath Montana's Cabinet Mountain Wilderness was successfully halted (again) yesterday when a federal judge ruled that U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials put the area's bull trout and grizzly bears at risk by approving the mine. The ruling orders the FWS to amend the b ... |
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| Topics: mining and drilling, Montana, news, US Fish and Wildlife Service (all these topics) |
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Libby, Libby, Libby on the Liable, Liable, Liable
W. R. Grace faces stiff federal charges over asbestos at Montana mine |
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08 Feb 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Libby, Libby, Libby on the Liable, Liable, Liable W. R. Grace faces stiff federal charges over asbestos at Montana mine Mining company W. R. Grace & Co. was formally charged yesterday with knowingly exposing mine employees and residents of Libby, Mont., to asbestos and concealing evidence about its potentially dangerous health effects. The indictment marks the closing chapter of what U.S. Attorney Bill Me ... |
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| Topics: mining and drilling, Montana, toxics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Hunted Like the Wolf
Wolf population controls shifted to states, landowners |
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04 Jan 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Hunted Like the Wolf Wolf population controls shifted to states, landowners Wolves in Idaho and Montana will soon be easier to kill, thanks to new regulations requiring them to run more slowly through livestock areas. Ah, we kid. In fact, new federal rules will give landowners in the two states the OK to fire on wolves they reasonably believe are threatening livestock, though they will have to show evidence of a possible attack. ... |
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| Topics: Idaho, Montana, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Cya-nara
State rejects attempt to repeal cyanide mining ban |
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03 Nov 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| Cya-nara State rejects attempt to repeal cyanide mining ban Voters in Montana decisively rejected Initiative 147, which would have repealed the state's 1998 ban on open-pit cyanide leach mining, a highly destructive and polluting gold-mining technique that extracts small amounts of gold and silver diffused through large amounts of rock. Some 98 percent of the money behind the initiative, almost $3 million, ... |
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| Topics: mining and drilling, Montana, politics, toxics (all these topics) |
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All Quiet on the Rocky Mountain Front
Bush administration cancels plans to drill in Rocky Mountain Front |
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06 Oct 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| All Quiet on the Rocky Mountain Front Bush administration cancels plans to drill in Rocky Mountain Front The Bush administration announced yesterday that it will suspend plans to drill for oil and gas in Montana's beloved Rocky Mountain Front pending a comprehensive study of the area -- a study that will not begin until 2007 and will last at least two years, taking the ultimate decision out of Bush's hands, even if h ... |
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| Topics: mining and drilling, Montana, politics (all these topics) |
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Vengeance Is Mine
Mining Company Funds Campaign to Repeal Cyanide-Mining Ban in Montana |
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07 Sep 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| Vengeance Is Mine Mining Company Funds Campaign to Repeal Cyanide-Mining Ban in Montana In 1998, Montana voters approved a ban on cyanide open-pit gold mining, which for years had defaced the state's landscape and polluted its groundwater. That ban could be repealed by an initiative set to appear on the November ballot, funded almost exclusively by Canyon Resources Corp., a mining company that wants to build ... |
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| Topics: mining and drilling, Montana, water pollution (all these topics) |
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I'm on the Hunt, I'm After You
Bush Angers Hunters and Anglers by Promoting Resource Extraction |
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04 Nov 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| I'm on the Hunt, I'm After You Bush Angers Hunters and Anglers by Promoting Resource Extraction The Bush administration is ticking off many traditionally Republican hunters and anglers with its plans to encourage logging and oil and gas drilling in natural areas throughout the Western U.S. Last week, 450 U.S. gun clubs sent a petition to the U.S. F ... |
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| Topics: Alaska, logging, mining and drilling, Montana, national forests, outdoor recreation, politics, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Miner Threat
Mine in Montana Could Finish Off a Grizzly Population |
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09 Sep 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Miner Threat Mine in Montana Could Finish Off a Grizzly Population A copper and silver mine planned for the edge of a wilderness area in Montana could push a small, local population of grizzly bears toward extinction, environmentalists are warning. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service gave the green light for the mine to be built o ... |
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| Topics: environmental non-government organizations, mining and drilling, Montana, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Vermiculite at the End of the Tunnel
Company Ordered to Pay for Cleanup of Montana Town |
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28 Aug 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Vermiculite at the End of the Tunnel Company Ordered to Pay for Cleanup of Montana Town In the largest trial judgment awarded in the history of the Superfund law, a federal judge yesterday ordered W.R. Grace and Co. to repay the $54.5 million the federal government spent cleaning up asbestos contamination in the town of Libby, Mont. The company and its subsidiary had already agreed to pay ... |
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| Topics: health, mining and drilling, Montana, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics) |
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