Grassroots democracy: members of DRC, PRBRC, and Northern Plains head to the Capital to keep commonsense methane rules. Update: The comment period ended with well over 400,000 concerned residents weighing in. While 99.8% of the comments were in favor of … Continued
New WORC report shows that self-bonding for coal mines can end now. While most states have long since ended self-bonding, a few hold-outs remain across the west, including Wyoming, North Dakota, New Mexico, and Colorado. WORC’s new report, Now is … Continued
You need a live scoreboard to keep up with the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) 2016 Methane Waste Prevention Rule. The 2016 rule would reduce the amount of taxpayer-owned natural gas that oil and gas companies waste through flaring, venting, … Continued
Far from accepting the foregone conclusion that the EPA will follow the coal industry’s wishes and repeal the Clean Power Plan regardless of what the people say, members of Powder River Basin Resource Council, Northern Plains Resource Council, and Dakota … Continued
Western Colorado Congress projects the cost to taxpayers by the BLM’s inaction on the methane waste rules. Since Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and the Bureau of Land Management wouldn’t hold public hearings on their proposal to gut the rules limiting … Continued
Western Native Voice Community Spotlight visited with Chase Comes At Night, Billings-based youth organizer and leader, to learn more about what inspires his activism and community involvement. Mr. Chase Comes At Night “I am a senior at Skyview High School. … Continued
My name is Beth Kaeding, and I live in Bozeman, Montana. I traveled here today to speak on behalf of the Western Organization of Resource Councils, which is a network of grassroots organizations in 7 western states. We have more … Continued
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is showing his lack of concern for the well-being of Montanans. He is seeing to it that the oil and gas industry still has a free pass to pollute methane and other dangerous gases straight into … Continued
It is possible to increase people’s comfort, improve their homes, and put dollars back in their pockets, at no cost to the taxpayer. That was the message that Tammy Agard of EEtility delivered to the attendees of Northern Plains’ Annual … Continued
Late in the evening, on February 22, a U.S. District Court in California halted the Interior Department’s one-year suspension of the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Methane Waste Prevention Rule. The judge called Interior Secretary Zinke’s suspension of the rule … Continued