Previous reporting showed how regulators and the mine teamed up to rebut independent researchers By Wilson Criscione INVESTIGATEWEST Following revelations about the Environmental Protection Agency’s cozy...
By Wilson Criscione INVESTIGATEWEST As she drove into Butte, Montana, six years ago to visit her son, environmental epidemiologist Suzanne McDermott couldn’t ignore the gouged-out mountain...
The federal agency deems a shift to narrative water quality standards insufficient to protect Montana waterways. By Amanda Eggert MONTANA FREE PRESS The Environmental Protection Agency...
By Kathy Bouchard EBS CONTRIBUTOR After spending nearly every possible vacation moment in Big Sky for nine years, my dad, Dick Barton, became a permanent resident...
ASSOCIATED PRESS MISSOULA – The Environmental Protection Agency has released the first of two plans intended to transfer oversight of Superfund units to Montana. Montana Public Radio reported...
U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $1,041,000 to the Montana Department of Environmental Quality to help protect human health and the...
Celebrate groundwater awareness week with an annual well test By Stephanie Lynn EBS CONTRIBUTOR Groundwater is the most extracted natural resource according to the National Groundwater Association,...
By Jackie Rainford-Corcoran EBS Health Columnist The Environmental Protection Agency was founded in 1970 by Richard Nixon and his administration. America’s environmental quality was at an all-time...
By Todd Wilkinson EBS Environmental Columnist Earth Day is Saturday, the 47th time it’s been commemorated since the first one was held in 1970. In many...
By Matt Volz Associated Press HELENA (AP) – Federal officials said Friday they have approved new measures meant to prevent a repeat of last fall’s mass bird deaths in...