Earthworks: Tribes, Conservation Groups to Challenge Montana's Failure to Enforce 'Bad Actor' Law Denounce Gianforte Administration Decision to Let Mining Executive Off 'Scot-Free'
August 04, 2021
August 04, 2021
HELENA, Montana, Aug. 4 (TNSOps) -- Earthworks issued the following news release on Aug. 3, 2021:
Tribes and conservation groups announced plans to file a legal action to require the Montana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to fulfill its legal duty to enforce the "bad actor" law against Hecla Mining Co. and Hecla CEO, Phillips S. Baker, Jr. In a response motion filed yesterday in State District Court, the groups informed the court that, as intervenors, they canno . . .
Tribes and conservation groups announced plans to file a legal action to require the Montana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to fulfill its legal duty to enforce the "bad actor" law against Hecla Mining Co. and Hecla CEO, Phillips S. Baker, Jr. In a response motion filed yesterday in State District Court, the groups informed the court that, as intervenors, they canno . . .