January 29, 2024
Conservation groups are fighting the U.S. government's bid for more time to correct a faulty environmental analysis of a coal strip mine expansion near the city of Colstrip, Montana, arguing that a federal court already said it would halt mining if changes weren't made within 19 months.
January 11, 2024
The U.S. government is asking a Montana federal judge for more than a year of extra time to correct a faulty environmental analysis for a coal strip mine expansion near the city of Colstrip, cautioning that conservation groups plan to oppose its request.
November 13, 2023
A Ninth Circuit panel on Monday questioned whether it was proper for it to decide a mining company's standing challenge to environmentalists opposed to the company's strip mine expansion, with one judge noting the decision under review was non-final.
January 26, 2021
A federal judge has refused a bid to stop the expansion of the Rosebud Mine in Montana, writing that a stop-work order would be ineffectual since mining operations at the new site were already underway when the injunction was requested.
July 31, 2020
A federal magistrate judge has refused to transfer environmental groups' challenge to a Montana mine expansion to Washington, D.C., saying the mining company failed to demonstrate such a move is necessary under the first-to-file rule.
February 12, 2020
A coal mining company that supplies a nearby Montana coal-fired power plant has asked a federal court to throw out a lawsuit brought by environmental groups challenging a federal permit for the mine's expansion.
November 19, 2019
Environmental groups have sued the U.S. Department of the Interior, accusing it of ignoring the impact on water quality and climate change of expanding coal mining at a Montana site that fuels a large coal-fired power plant.