Montana
May 9, 2008--Bush signs bill to recover water from energy development (Colorado Springs Gazette)
Federal legislation to explore putting groundwater pumped out during oil and gas production to use was signed into law Thursday. The
May 2008--$25 million settlement reached in Colstrip lawsuit (US Water News)
The five corporations that own eastern Montana's Colstrip power plant have agreed to pay $25 million to settle a groundwater
April 8, 2008--Experts study effects of energy boom on water sources in the West (Aspen Times)
More than a year after the deadline, federal officials are starting work on a study exploring some of the effects of
April 5, 2008--Wyoming asks Supreme Court to toss Montana's water suit (Pueblo Chieftain)
Wyoming’s attorney general asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to dismiss a lawsuit alleging the state’s agriculture and energy
March 27, 2008--Climate change said to affect streams and trees throughout the West (Glenwood Springs Post Independent)
Around the same time the American West started heating up five years ago, Colorado started losing its lodgepole pine forests to a beetle infestation.
March 19, 2008--A river to run through it again (LA Times)
Every evening, a 45-car train rumbles away from the Clark Fork River, loaded not with copper, gold or silver ore, but with the toxic legacy of more than a century of mining: tons of
March 3, 2008--Feds approve water rules for gas drillers (Denver Post)
The federal government has approved strict new water-quality standards sought by Montana over fears that natural-gas drilling in neighboring Wyoming coul
February 26, 2008--Indian tribes exercising water rights (USA Today)
For decades, ranchers and farmers across the West have tapped into rivers and streams on or near Indian reservations.
February 20, 2008--Justices let Montana pursue water suit against Wyoming (LA Times)
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday said Montana can pursue its lawsuit that charges Wyoming with using too much water from a pair of rivers that flow between the states.
