Yep…
Nick Anderson understands Putin.
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
Our neighbors in Colorado have the courage to stand up for the health, safety and rights of women…
From the Daily Montanan: https://coloradonewsline.com/briefs/landmark-bill-affirming-abortion-rights-colorado-polis/?
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/
Canadian coal mining giant Teck, fined $60 million last year for (ironically) polluting Canadian waters with selenium, gets Gianforte-appointed regulatory board in Montana to reduce selenium standard for Montana waterways…
From Montana Free Press: https://montanafreepress.org/2022/04/05/lake-koocanusa-selenium-rule/?
Trump’s Interior Department’s attempts to understate climate impact of Montana’s Bull Mountain coal mine called out by federal appeals court…
From KION: https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/04/05/appeals-court-says-us-downplayed-coal-mines-climate-impacts/
From our history section: in a storyline familiar to us today, on this date in 1941 a genocidal dictator invaded Yugoslavia and Greece, killing thousands of civilians…
More, from History: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germany-invades-yugoslavia-and-greece?