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PRESS RELEASE: YVCC helps Billings secure $1M for urban forests

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...
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NorthWestern’s newest energy roadmap leads to a dead end

NorthWestern’s newest energy roadmap leads to a dead end

NorthWestern Energy’s Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) is released every few years to serve as a roadmap for future power production and a preview of...
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Challenging a rate case built on falsehoods (Part I)

Challenging a rate case built on falsehoods (Part I)

Montana Power Company – Northwestern Energy’s predecessor as the primary electric utility in Montana – owned 30% of Colstrip Units 3 and 4.In 1974,...
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DEQ’s oversight failures in the Bull Mountains creates crisis for ranchers

DEQ’s oversight failures in the Bull Mountains creates crisis for ranchers

As many of you know, Signal Peak Energy, the operator of the Bull Mountains Mine near Roundup, has been a reckless company. Signal Peak...
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Melissa Holt: Deep roots and deep love for eastern Montana

Melissa Holt: Deep roots and deep love for eastern Montana

Melissa Holt was born and raised in Glendive. She lives in the home her maternal grandparents bought after moving to the Montana town generations...
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Rallying for our constitutional right to have a voice in energy decisions

Rallying for our constitutional right to have a voice in energy decisions

Last week, dozens of Northern Plains members gathered on the Yellowstone County Courthouse lawn to rally for our right to have a say about NorthWestern Energy’s methane-fired power plant in Laurel.

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Summer 2023 Plains Truth

Summer 2023 Plains Truth

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PRESS RELEASE: Montana ranchers take D.C., push for competitive beef markets

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...
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Laurel residents tell court they were cut out of public process in gas plant permitting

Laurel residents tell court they were cut out of public process in gas plant permitting

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Members rally in Billings for input on zoning for power plant near Laurel

Members rally in Billings for input on zoning for power plant near Laurel

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Ita Killeen and Mary Fitzpatrick: NorthWestern’s latest energy plan is an expensive disaster for Montana

Ita Killeen and Mary Fitzpatrick: NorthWestern’s latest energy plan is an expensive disaster for Montana

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Rate increase OK’d for MDU customers

Rate increase OK’d for MDU customers

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