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oil drilling platform 'Hickory' is seen here in the Gulf of Mexico
Environment
Oil firms offer $382 million for right to drill in Gulf of Mexico after courts reject Biden administration plans to protect an endangered whale
By Matthew Brown, Matthew Daly and The Associated PressDecember 21, 2023
A wolf stands in the enclosure
Politics
Cattle industry sues to block the reintroduction of gray wolves as rural businesses and urban environmentalists clash in Colorado
By Matthew Brown and The Associated PressDecember 14, 2023
Montana Senator Jon Tester
Politics
Democrats have a flat-topped, Carhartt-wearing Montana farmer with a hoard of lobbyist cash in the way of GOP Senate control
By Matthew Brown and The Associated PressNovember 20, 2023
Pallbearers carrying a wooden casket
Lifestyle
Funeral home that offered “green” burials let 189 bodies pile up and lied about it, say authorities who responded to complaints of “abhorrent” smell
By Jesse Bedayn, Matthew Brown and The Associated PressOctober 18, 2023
Biden stirs anger on all sides with oil and gas lease sales in Gulf of Mexico: ‘Showing the world that it’s OK to prioritize polluters’
Environment
Biden stirs anger on all sides with oil and gas lease sales in Gulf of Mexico: ‘Showing the world that it’s OK to prioritize polluters’
By Matthew Daly, Matthew Brown and The Associated PressSeptember 29, 2023
Gen Z Montana
Environment
Gen Z activists just won a first-of-its-kind trial against the state of Montana for violating their right to a clean environment
By Matthew Brown, Amy Beth Hanson and The Associated PressAugust 15, 2023
Yellowstone River bridge collapse
Environment
Train carrying hot asphalt and molten sulfur spills into Montana’s Yellowstone River as bridge collapses, drinking water shut off downstream
By Matthew Brown, Gene Johnson and The Associated PressJune 25, 2023
Montana environmental activists
Environment
Gen Z climate activists from 5 to 22 years old are suing Montana for ‘choosing corporations over the needs of their citizens’
By Matthew Brown, Amy Beth Hanson and The Associated PressJune 12, 2023
Biden administration wants to let conservationists lease public land just like drillers and ranchers do
Politics
Biden administration wants to let conservationists lease public land just like drillers and ranchers do
By Matthew Brown and The Associated PressMay 15, 2023
Companies are bidding on oil leases in the Gulf of Mexico that could produce 1 billion barrels of oil over the next 50 years
Environment
Companies are bidding on oil leases in the Gulf of Mexico that could produce 1 billion barrels of oil over the next 50 years
By Kevin McGill, Matthew Brown and The Associated PressMarch 29, 2023
U.S. Sen. Jon Tester
Politics
Forget the Chinese balloon—selling farmland to foreign nationals is the real worry, argue U.S. lawmakers
By Matthew Brown, Sam Metz and The Associated PressFebruary 8, 2023
Wildfires
Environment
Wildfires are so bad the government is spending $930 million just to clear trees and underbrush from national forests
By Matthew Brown and The Associated PressJanuary 19, 2023
A herd of Bison in South Dakota
Environment
‘They walk in two worlds’: Bison have made a huge comeback thanks to Native American tribes
By Matthew Brown and The Associated PressNovember 21, 2022
Wind farm
Environment
Biden rolls out a huge new wind farm program. The only catch—it kind of kills eagles
By Matthew Brown and The Associated PressSeptember 30, 2022
Biden administration approves $900 million for states to build a national electric car-charging network
Environment
Biden administration approves $900 million for states to build a national electric car-charging network
By Gillian Flaccus, Matthew Brown and The Associated PressSeptember 14, 2022
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