It’s all too common a story, whether oil and gas wells or mines, the owners run away with the profits and leave the taxpayers to clean up the mess…

Strict environmental regulations and significant bonding requirements are steps in the right direction. More here, from YPR: https://www.ypradio.org/energy/2022-04-05/montana-getting-millions-in-federal-funding-to-clean-up-abandoned-coal-mines

Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen and Carbon County legislator Seth Berglee, both right-wing extremists, push their misinterpretation of the Second Amendment to the state’s Supreme Court…

From the Daily Montanan: https://dailymontanan.com/2022/04/05/groups-line-up-to-weigh-in-on-the-subject-of-carrying-guns-on-montana-campuses/? A previous post on the Second Amendment: https://carboncountytruth.com/from-our-history-section-odd-that-those-so-obsessed-with-the-2nd-amendment-seem-to-know-the-least-about-it-our-founding-fathers-did-not-intend-for-weapons-of-war-to-be-in-private-hands-for-starters/