“Western resort towns being loved to death”: Red Lodge (and many similar towns in our region), are you listening?…
A good read, from High Country News: https://www.hcn.org/articles/south-economy-western-resort-towns-risk-being-loved-to-death? Gardiner, Montana, Colorado, Headwaters Economics, many places not meant for so many people, overtourism
Eastern Montana Congressman, fascist and freedom-hating Matt Rosendale also hates our public lands, wanting them managed for the benefit of corporations and the wealthy…
From the Daily Montanan: https://dailymontanan.com/2023/05/24/rosendale-calls-blm-activist-organization-ahead-of-hearing-on-land-conservation-proposal/? BLM, conservation, The Mountain Pact
From our man-caused climate change section: incredibly, Montana is already experiencing wildfire smoke season, as record high temps plague the Pacific NW, wildfires burn in Canada & the MT legislature makes things worse…
From cnbc.com: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/17/wildfires-burn-millions-of-acres-in-canada-send-oil-prices-higher.html From Montana Free Press: https://montanafreepress.org/2023/05/12/gianforte-signs-climate-change-analysis-ban-into-law/ unprecedented drought, tar sands oil, climate change denial, Gianforte, HB971
BREAKING: MYSTERIOUS “LAW ENFORCEMENT INCIDENT” CLOSES YELLOWSTONE ROAD CORRIDOR…
From mybighornbasin.com: https://mybighornbasin.com/mysterious-incident-close-yellowstone-road/ Yellowstone National Park
The Republican approach to every problem seems to be the same: prohibit people and communities from deciding what’s best for themselves — the affordable housing crisis is no different (of course, no mention of not advertising Montana, anymore)…
From Montana Free Press: https://montanafreepress.org/2023/05/10/how-the-montana-legeislature-tried-to-tackle-housing-crunch/? There are simply too many people in Montana now. Our environment and infrastructure is suffering because of too many people....
A recent front-page article in the Carbon County News, “City Council listens to STR Recommendations,” outlines how Red Lodge is attempting to deal with the nationwide dilemma of STR’s impacting neighborhoods and affordable housing…
From The Carbon County News: https://www.carboncountynews.com/news/city-council-listen-to-str-recommendations/article_579a9e72-d326-11ed-a592-a372da094466.html short-term rentals
Man-caused climate change has consequences…
From The Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/02/22/record-temperatures-warm-east-cold-west/? record highs and lows, at same time, extreme weather events
One of the ways that plastic is killing the planet is by being a major contributor to climate change…
From RMI: https://rmi.org/clean-energy-101-reducing-climate-pollution-from-the-plastics-industry/?
Thousands of new jobs (and good, clean jobs) are coming to Montana, thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act…
From canarymedia.com: https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy-jobs/chart-us-climate-law-to-spur-thousands-of-new-jobs-in-every-state? Biden, Tester, Democrats, renewables, clean energy, good jobs
A good read here on how we can close coal plants sooner rather than later, and move to cleaner and less expensive alternatives…
From RMI: https://rmi.org/five-ways-to-finance-early-coal-phaseout/? man-caused climate change, health hazards, Colstrip, Talen, Signal Peak, NorthWestern Energy