About two years ago, I wrote about my partnership with the National Wildlife Federation and why the Otter Creek Mine would never be built. It wasn’t just a guess, a … Read more
Otter Creek Coal Mine
Moving Away From Coal to Help Wildlife
After decades of being the bully in the realm of American fuels, things aren’t going so well for the big coal companies. A string of recent market events has them … Read more
Tongue River Railroad Roar Comes to a Screeching Halt
On a recent crystalline cold, moonlit night, I was driving east on Montana Highway 12 to Helena, the state capital. Like many highways, Highway 12 winds through the Little Blackfoot … Read more
Yet Another Delay for the Largest Proposed Coal Mine in the Country
Arch Coal can’t catch a break. Yesterday the Billings Gazette reported that Arch Coal had to write off a $57.7 million loss on their DKRW Advanced Fuels’ coal gasification project … Read more
The Top 10 Climate Successes of 2013
We’ll remember 2013 as a year of climate action thanks in large part to one landmark announcement: President Obama’s plan to act on climate. National Wildlife Federation has been a … Read more
Oglala Lakota Tribe Calls On Tribes to Oppose Otter Creek Coal Mine
Guest post by Joyce Whiting Recently, my Tribe, the Oglala Lakota, passed a resolution opposing the proposed Otter Creek coal mine and Tongue River Railroad in our historical homelands and hunting grounds … Read more
Two Ways You Can Help Stop the Otter Creek Coal Mine Today
A friend and mentor told me once, “the energy companies are coming, and they are coming fast, so pick your place and protect it with everything you have.” Well, … Read more
Arch Coal: Incompetent or Arrogant?
That is the question that some of us are asking after Arch Coal submitted an obviously incomplete permit application for the proposed Otter Creek coal mine to the Montana Department of … Read more
