Montana — where natural beauty is so important, the state imposed a constitutional right to a clean environment — also boasts the country’s largest recoverable coal reserves, making it one of the most intense climate battlegrounds in the country.
Montana is the land of big skies, glaciers and fly-fishing — where natural beauty is so important, the state imposed a constitutional right to a clean environment. But it also boasts the country’s largest recoverable coal reserves, which are critical to its economy, making it one of the most intense climate battlegrounds in the country.This month, Gov. Greg Gianforte signed a law barring the state from calculating the climate impacts of major projects.
But Senate Majority Leader Steve Fitzpatrick said he thinks climate issues have recently taken on a different tenor, as they dominated the final weeks of the most recent session, which ended May 10.early last month to revoke a permit for a natural gas power plant that NorthWestern Energy, a utility company that operates in Montana, planned to build near Billings.
For its part, the utility company has pledged to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 but says power generation like the proposed gas plant is necessary because its growing and abundant wind and solar energy resources don’t produce electricity all the time. Spokeswoman Jo Dee Black noted that when extreme cold descended on Montana in late December, the utility had to import expensive power to meet power demand.
that was amended as recently as 2011 to encourage fossil fuel industry development, as well as investment in wind turbines and other clean energy., scheduling the two-week bench trial to begin June 12. Many Montana Republicans, like Fitzpatrick — who is not involved in the litigation — say they don’t believe what happens in their state has any effect on global temperatures. “It’s just ideology,” he said of the surge of activism.state’s fossil fuel industryEnergy statistics show Montana holds 30 percent of U.S. recoverable coal reserves and produces the fourth-most coal among U.S. states from six mines.
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