Permitting Reform Will Enable Montana To Build The Future

By Tanner Avery

05/13/2025

"Thanks to reforms like HB 466 and recent federal action, our leaders are cutting permitting red tape so we can build the projects our future depends on, helping to ensure that Montana and America’s golden age is ahead of us, not behind."

TAGS: Center For New Frontiers

Montana Blockchain Wins And The Path Forward

By Tanner Avery

04/23/2025

"As the national conversation around emerging technologies continues to evolve, Montana is staking its claim as the national leader in freedom-driven tech policy."

TAGS: Center For New Frontiers, tech and innovation

What Should Freedom-Loving States Do About Internet Content?

By Tanner Avery

02/19/2025

"By avoiding failed, heavy-handed policies attempted in other states and adopting a policy strategy focused on addressing government overreach and embracing free enterprise, Montana state lawmakers have the opportunity to chart a productive path forward for internet content policy."

TAGS: Center For New Frontiers

ROFR: Holding Back Montana’s Grid

By Tanner Avery

01/02/2025

"Despite clear evidence of the harm caused by ROFR policies—and their repeal at the federal level—12 states, including Montana, continue to enforce these anti-competitive measures."

TAGS: Center For New Frontiers

Lawfare Threatens Clean, Healthful Environment

By Kendall Cotton

07/30/2024

"Our chronically ambiguous federal and state environmental permitting laws have enabled fringe anti-forest management groups to weaponize the courts and shut down critical projects, even projects that are good for our forests and our environment."

TAGS: Center For New Frontiers, forest management

New EPA Rules Threaten Montana’s Economic Future

By Tanner Avery

07/02/2024

"Our leaders should be cutting red tape to make it easier to build vital projects and generate more power, not less."

TAGS: Center For New Frontiers

Montana Blockchain Innovator: Josh Schultz

By Tanner Avery

06/19/2024

"Bitcoin mining breaks the scarcity mindset in energy generation by enabling utility companies to dispose of excess amounts of power without suffering a loss."

TAGS: Center For New Frontiers

Public Comment On DEQ Work Group Recommendations

By Frontier Institute, Tanner Avery

06/17/2024

"Providing clear definitions should be a primary focus of any MEPA reforms."

TAGS: Center For New Frontiers, Official Statement

MEPA Blocks Montana Wind Energy

By Tanner Avery

06/12/2024

"Regardless of perspective, our current permitting process and the litigation it fosters undoubtedly led to the demise of the Coyote Wind project."

TAGS: Center For New Frontiers

Montana Blockchain Innovator: Alex Shefrin

By Tanner Avery

05/29/2024

"Now is the perfect time to nurture Montanans’ entrepreneurial spirit to have this technology be home-grown right here. Montana is a great place to live – it’s time we make it a great place to build decentralized innovations."

TAGS: Center For New Frontiers

Lost Potential: The Middleman Project And The Consequences Of Our Permitting Processes

By Tanner Avery

05/14/2024

"The Middleman Project is a textbook example of how our federal and state environmental permitting processes are broken and fuel litigation that harms our most critical projects, even those that will ultimately be good for our environment."

TAGS: Center For New Frontiers, forest management

Economic Freedom: A Blueprint for Environmental Progress

By Tanner Avery

05/03/2024

"Research demonstrates that increasing prosperity, enabled by Economic Freedom, is the best tool at our disposal when tackling environmental issues."

TAGS: Center For New Frontiers

Derailing Collaborative Conservation: The Pintler Face Project

By Tanner Avery

04/29/2024

"Yet despite successfully achieving this collaboration, The Pintler Face Project serves as a poignant illustration of how the real problem holding vital forest management projects is actually our permitting process."

TAGS: Center For New Frontiers, forest management

Bullish On AI

By Tanner Avery

04/18/2024

"Montana has every reason to be bullish on AI, but without leaders doing more to champion these innovations, we may have our incoming productivity boom prematurely thwarted."

TAGS: Center For New Frontiers

Montana Blockchain Innovator: Leigh Drogen

By Tanner Avery

04/16/2024

"The implication of crypto is that Americans will end up saving a tremendous amount of money on the cost of every economic transaction they do – whether it's a lower interest rate you have to pay when you take out a loan, or a lower fee associated with buying that cup of coffee."

TAGS: Center For New Frontiers, Montana Crypto Innovator Series