PRESS RELEASE: YVCC helps Billings secure $1M for urban forests
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 14, 2023 BILLINGS, Mont. – The United States Forest Service today announced that the City of Billings will receive $1 million in federal funds to design and implement an urban […]
PRESS RELEASE: Montana ranchers take D.C., push for competitive beef markets
Daines, Tester, Rosendale, and Zinke meet with concerned producers BILLINGS, Mont. – A pair of Montana family ranchers have a longstanding beef with the lack of competition in the U.S. livestock […]
What do Laurel residents think about NorthWestern’s polluting power plant?
Last week, eighteen members of Northern Plains took to the sidewalks in Laurel, canvassing neighborhoods to speak with local residents about the methane-fired power plant NorthWestern Energy is building alongside […]
Northern Plains ranchers lobby for COOL, livestock policy reforms in D.C.
Member-ranchers Steve Charter (Shepherd) and Gilles Stockton (Grass Range) joined ranchers from other Western Organization of Resource Councils (WORC) groups in Wyoming and North Dakota for a livestock “fly-in” earlier […]
Northern Plains gets national attention fighting cronyism and corruption at the legislature
Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, in collaboration with the Montana Free Press exposed how politicians are colluding with NorthWestern Energy and others to guarantee big corporate profits while everyday Montanans pay the price. Northern Plains members Jeanie Alderson, Steve Krum, and Wally McRae described their experiences on the front lines as they’ve fought to protect their communities from toxic pollution and industry greed.
Stand up for fair, impartial, and unbiased Montana courts
Our democracy is built on a system of constitutional checks and balances that includes three independent branches of government. But this year, some Montana legislators have sought to undermine that […]
Northern Plains to legislators: “Don’t mess with our Montana Constitution!”
Hundreds of Montanans gathered in Helena’s Capitol rotunda on Wednesday for Northern Plains’ We the People rally to protect the Montana Constitution. The event featured impassioned speeches by former Montana […]
PRESS RELEASE: Hundreds rally in Capitol rotunda to protect Montana Constitution
Northern Plains organizes event to celebrate, defend Montanans’ rights FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 1, 2023 HELENA, Mont. – Despite icy roads and interstate closures, several hundred Montanans gathered today in […]
PRESS RELEASE: Signal Peak Energy coal mine has damaged and destroyed Bull Mountains water sources, says legal complaint
Groups demand federal agencies enforce laws to protect area and landowners from criminally-convicted corporation For Immediate Release: December 14, 2022 Billings, MT – Conservation groups have filed a formal complaint […]
PRESS RELEASE: Groups Petition State to Revoke Bull Mountains Mine Permit
Habitual criminal offenses by Signal Peak Energy threaten Montana’s health and safety Billings, MT – Today, conservation groups formally petitioned the Montana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to revoke Signal […]
PRESS RELEASE: Northern Plains responds to passage of historic climate legislation
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 12, 2022 BILLINGS, Mont. – Today, the United States House of Representatives passed legislation that will provide historic funding investments to create climate and energy programs designed to […]
PRESS RELEASE: Federal court cites human health, climate costs in rejecting massive Wyoming, Montana coal mining plan
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEAE: August 4, 2022 GREAT FALLS, Mont.— A federal judge late yesterday struck down two U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) resource management plans that failed to address […]
