Environmental

Federal Agency Fails to Protect Water and Air Quality from Massive Coal Mine Expansion

Conservation Groups Forced to take legal action

Helena, MT–(ENEWSPF)–August 17, 2015. Today, Montana conservation groups were forced to take legal action to protect water and air quality from a massive expansion at the Bull Mountains coal mine near Roundup. Earlier this year the federal government approved a 100-million-ton expansion at the mine, setting it up to become the largest underground coal mine in the country, with only cursory environmental review. Expansion of the mine will…

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