Center For New Frontiers

THE MISSION

The Center for New Frontiers is dedicated to opening new frontiers for freedom so Montanans can build and create an abundant future.


2023-2025 Policy Priorities

The Center’s biennium policy priorities are:

– Securing fundamental rights to enable economic dynamism
– Regulatory reforms to empower innovators and entrepreneurs
– Encouraging crypto and blockchain innovation
– Eliminating policy barriers to energy abundance
– Developing pro-innovation environmental policy


Montana 2050 Project

The Center will also lead the Montana 2050 Project, an initiative to develop a long-range free market policy vision for issues critical to future economic prosperity. During the 23-25 Biennium, the Center will explore long-range Montana 2050 priorities in the following issue areas:

– Property Rights
– Occupational Licensing
– Education
– Red Tape Relief

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

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 Frontier Institute

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

Unpacking MTLeg Judicial Proposals

Unpacking MTLeg Judicial Proposals

To help our followers better understand these reforms and their current status, Frontier’s Tech & Innovation Policy Analyst, Chris Isaacs unpacks these reforms in his most recent column.

By Tanner Avery