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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 30, 2021 BILLINGS Mont. – The Northern Plains Resource Council board of directors has hired Maggie Gordon to serve as the organization’s Executive Director after an expansive nationwide search. Northern Plains is a Billings-based grassroots conservation and family agriculture nonprofit organization founded in 1972. Maggie was an active member of Northern Plains before being […]

Local Food Challenge commences as farmers, ranchers, and consumers find more opportunities to connect FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 28, 2021 BILLINGS, Mont. – Northern Plains Resource Council is hosting the sixth annual Montana Local Food Challenge. The event is held online during the entire month of August, where Montanans are encouraged to eat something local every day of the month, participate in […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 9, 2021 BILLINGS, Mont. – Today, TC Energy announced that it has canceled the controversial Keystone XL pipeline project after a thirteen-year effort that has included countless battles in Montana and beyond over the legality of the Canadian tar sands project.  Northern Plains Resource Council has worked alongside tribal communities and […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 20, 2021 BILLINGS, Mont. – On his first day in office, President Biden issued a list of measures the Biden/Harris administration will take to tackle climate change. New policies include rejoining the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, re-establishing the Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases (GHG) to […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 18, 2021 CONTACTS: Dustin Ogdin, Northern Plains Communications Director, dustin@northernplains.org BILLINGS, Mont. – Canada’s CBC News first reported over the weekend that President-elect Joe Biden plans to make good on a campaign promise to stop the Keystone XL pipeline by rescinding the cross-border KXL permit as early as his first day […]

DEQ refused to evaluate full scope of project and admits failure to meaningfully review public comments FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 5, 2021 HELENA, Mont. –  Today, the Northern Plains Resource Council and the Sierra Club appealed the Montana Department of Environmental Quality’s (DEQ) issuance of a water quality certification for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 17, 2020 BILLINGS, Mont. – The Montana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) approved a plan today for excavating – physically digging up – 6.7 million cubic yards of coal ash stored outside the Colstrip Power Plants in southeastern Montana. Coal ash is the waste product of coal-fired power plants and is […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  September 22, 2020 Link to DEQ Colstrip page with information on the coal ash pond comment period for Units 1&2: https://deq.mt.gov/DEQAdmin/mfs/ColstripSteamElectricStation BILLINGS, Mont. – The Montana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is taking public comment on long-term plans to close and remediate a waste coal ash impoundment associated with Units 1&2 of […]

BLM Plans Govern Coal Mining of 50,000 Acres, 6 Billion Tons of Coal FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 27, 2020 GREAT FALLS, Mont. – Conservation groups sued the Trump administration today to challenge a massive Powder River Basin coal mining plan that the groups say ignores alternatives to coal, oil and gas leasing and fails to […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, July 6, 2020 Court Rejects Push from Trump Admin to Allow Construction of Keystone XL Through Waterways Amid Appeal Washington, DC — Today, the United States Supreme Court declined a request from TC Energy and the Trump administration to allow Keystone XL to proceed under Nationwide Permit 12, a key water […]