It’s been 101 years since Congress first began regulating oil and gas leasing on public lands. Since then, oil and gas CEOs have abused the leasing system to boost their profits at a heavy cost to American taxpayers and to our air and water. This system has also undermined public…
They just won’t quit. Once again, despite losing repeated court decisions over the last seven years, Solenex LLC is attempting to reinstate its oil and gas lease in the Badger-Two Medicine. Last week, with representation from Mountain States Legal Foundation (formerly led by William Perry Pendley), the Louisiana-based…
Today the Bureau of Land Management issued a press release regarding two resource management plans the agency has been developing since 2015, one for public lands in central Montana and another for lands in western Montana. The BLM waited several hours to release the finalized plans after the press release went…
While most of us have been home practicing self-isolation and focusing on the health and safety of our families, the Department of the Interior under Sec. David Bernhardt has been carrying on with decision making that will impact public lands across the country for decades to come. Right now, the…
As the fire season grows from bad to worse, Montanans across our beautiful state are steadily growing more alarmed. Entire communities have been evacuated, and it seems each day there’s a new neighborhood in the crosshairs of a conflagration. Our thoughts and prayers are with those whose homes have either…