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

A good read here on the Achilles heel of the anti-trans, anti-democracy, anti-freedom & anti-science fascist agenda of the Republican Party in states like Montana…

From The New Republic: https://newrepublic.com/article/172559/republicans-anti-trans-assault-achilles-heel? Zooey Zephyr, John Fuller, Jerod & Joshua Hughes, fascism, Christo-fascism, white supremacy, right-wing extremism

As Red Lodge decides the fate of local recycling, perhaps plastic “recycling” should be abandoned, since only a tiny fraction of plastic is “recycled” (and, even then, it’s not really recycled), & people encouraged to just stop using plastic instead…

Recycling reduces the cost of Red Lodge's solid waste management system, since less solid waste has to be hauled to the landfill when people are...

In these times of man-caused climate change we can throw the “500-year-flood” and similar jargon out the window — Red Lodge is still cleaning up but who knows what will happen this year…

From The Billings Gazette: https://billingsgazette.com/news/red-lodge-hustles-to-repair-last-junes-flood-damage-before-this-years-runoff/article_85052e2e-ccc6-11ed-b8ba-8bfa7e5fe185.html?