Notes from the Field

As we enter a new presidential administration with cabinet appointees that are hostile to the conservation ethic that underpins Northern Plains’ work to protect...

NorthWestern Energy recently announced its purchase of the majority share of Colstrip Units 3 and 4 for the price of $0.00. Why would two energy...

To celebrate Northern Plains 50th Anniversary, we assembled a photography exhibition to highlight the people, places, and events that helped shape our organizational history....

Unscrupulous electric utilities put ratepayers on the hook for expensive, polluting fossil fuel plants in the 1980s, a history that is repeating itself.

Montana Power Company – Northwestern Energy’s predecessor as the primary electric utility in Montana – owned 30% of Colstrip Units 3 and 4.In 1974,...

In late 1971, several months before a small group of people formed Northern Plains, some of those same people embarked on an ambitious project...

In the early 1970s, something revolutionary happened. Everyday Montanans rose up, demanding a new constitution with expanded rights and freedoms that center power in the hands of the people.

BILLINGS, Mont. – DanWalt Gardens, just north of the Yellowstone River on the southern edge of Billings, was nearing capacity as hundreds of Northern...

In the late 70s and 80s air quality in Billings was so polluted, many residents suffered from asthma, including children. One such resident was...