Court Strikes Down Montana Coal Mine Expansion
April 06, 2022
April 06, 2022
HELENA, Montana, April 6 (TNSPol) -- WildEarth Guardians issued the following joint news release with four organizations on April 5, 2022:
Yesterday, a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals' panel ruled Trump's Office of Surface Mining (OSM) wrongly approved an expansion of Signal Peak's Bull Mountains coal mine located north of Billings, Montana. OSM largely ignored the fact that the proposed 175 million ton expansion would release 240 million tons of greenhouse gas polluti . . .
Yesterday, a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals' panel ruled Trump's Office of Surface Mining (OSM) wrongly approved an expansion of Signal Peak's Bull Mountains coal mine located north of Billings, Montana. OSM largely ignored the fact that the proposed 175 million ton expansion would release 240 million tons of greenhouse gas polluti . . .