Yellowstone County Generating Station Archives - Montana Environmental Information Center - MEIC https://meic.org/tag/yellowstone-county-generating-station/ Clean and healthful. It's your right, our mission. Tue, 30 Sep 2025 17:10:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://meic.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/cropped-MEIC_whitesmall-32x32.png Yellowstone County Generating Station Archives - Montana Environmental Information Center - MEIC https://meic.org/tag/yellowstone-county-generating-station/ 32 32 Press Release: Groups challenge Montana’s second rubberstamp of methane gas plant near Laurel https://meic.org/groups-challenge-montanas-second-rubberstamp-of-methane-gas-plant-near-laurel/ Mon, 29 Sep 2025 19:42:17 +0000 https://meic.org/?p=39573 The Department of Environmental Quality failed to adequately evaluate climate impacts for a second time, despite an order from the Montana Supreme Court   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Sept. 29, 2025 CONTACTS Meridian Wappett, Western Environmental Law Center, 208-596-9870, wappett@westernlaw.org Perry Wheeler, Earthjustice, pwheeler@earthjustice.org Anne Hedges, Montana Environmental Information Center, 406-461-9546, ahedges@meic.org   Conservation groups today …

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]]> Press Release: Montana DEQ releases sparse environmental assessment for NorthWestern Energy’s methane gas plant https://meic.org/press-release-montana-deq-releases-sparse-environmental-assessment-for-northwestern-energys-methane-gas-plant/ Mon, 04 Aug 2025 18:58:36 +0000 https://meic.org/?p=39108 DEQ’s court-order analysis includes one sentence about climate impacts of fossil fuel plant FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Aug. 4, 2025 MEDIA CONTACTS Jenny Harbine | Earthjustice | 406.586.9699 | jharbine@earthjustice.org Anne Hedges | MEIC | 406.443.2520 | ahedges@meic.org   MONTANA – The leadership of the Montana Dept. of Environmental Quality (DEQ) wasted taxpayer dollars and ignored …

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]]> How Investors Are Getting Rich Off Of This Montana Town https://meic.org/how-investors-are-getting-rich-off-of-this-montana-town/ Mon, 14 Jul 2025 15:45:57 +0000 https://meic.org/?p=39133 This video by More Perfect Union, featuring MEIC’s Anne Hedges, exposes how for-profit utility companies, like NorthWestern Energy, invest in the most expensive energy resources in order to maximize corporate profits at the expense of bill-paying customers. ??   Watch it here.

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]]> DEQ Gets an “F” in Environmental Analysis for NorthWestern’s Gas Plant https://meic.org/deq-gets-an-f-in-environmental-analysis-for-northwesterns-gas-plant/ Thu, 05 Jun 2025 14:17:02 +0000 https://meic.org/?p=38678 by Anne Hedges Just when you think the Montana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) cannot get any worse, it does. The Montana Supreme Court ruled in January that DEQ must redo the environmental analysis for NorthWestern Energy’s Laurel Generating Station (sometimes referred to as the Yellowstone County Generating Station). The court ruled that DEQ must …

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