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The Montana Zoning Atlas 2.0

The Montana Zoning Atlas 2.0

Cities in Montana use zoning to tell us what kind of houses can be built and where. They say whether we can have single-family housing in one neighborhood, or apartment buildings in another. The Montana Zoning Atlas 2.0 uses the National Zoning Atlas standardized methodology to evaluate 13 fast growing Montana counties to see how...

Opportunities To Fix Forests In The Farm Bill

Opportunities To Fix Forests In The Farm Bill

"Fixing our forests will ultimately require cutting through the environmental red tape that prevents many forest-restoration projects from getting off the ground or stalls them until they go up in flames."

By Hannah Downey

Permit Montana To Build

Permit Montana To Build

"Readers should consider which is better for the climate: forcing critical projects through years of red tape and endless litigation, or building the infrastructure necessary for a clean and abundant energy future as fast as we possibly can?"

By Kendall Cotton

Rare Earth Elements Discovered In The Bitterroots

Rare Earth Elements Discovered In The Bitterroots

"With names like neodymium and praseodymium, you might not be very familiar with these elements, but the reality is they are indispensable in the creation of things that you use on a daily basis."

By Tanner Avery

2023 End Of Session Wrap Up

2023 End Of Session Wrap Up

Here’s a summary of the successful proposals we had a direct hand in crafting and supporting, as well as other big wins we are celebrating.

By Kendall Cotton

Sine Die Optimism

Sine Die Optimism

"To borrow a witticism often attributed to the great Will Rogers, us taxpayers should be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for."

By Kendall Cotton

Eminently Debatable: Judge Moses’s Reasoning On The Laurel Power Plant Shutdown

Eminently Debatable: Judge Moses’s Reasoning On The Laurel Power Plant Shutdown

"Yet, according to Judge Moses, the plain meaning of a 12-year-old statute, with no subsequent GHG reduction statutes or regulations and after countless other environmental reviews, now compels the DEQ to suddenly develop a regulatory framework for assessing the impact of GHG for the Laurel Plant project is eminently debatable."

By Chris Isaacs

Discovery In The Bitterroot May Bring Big Implications

Discovery In The Bitterroot May Bring Big Implications

"A recent discovery in the Bitterroot Mountains has thrust Montana into a 21st-century gold rush, but unlike previous iterations, this gold rush is searching for something even harder to find: Rare earth elements."

By Tanner Avery