(BOZEMAN, MT) – Upper Missouri Waterkeeper filed a Complaint today, Friday December 30th, 2016, with the Montana 18th District Court challenging the Montana Dept. of Environmental Quality’s (DEQ) new statewide, General Permit for municipal separate storm sewer systems (the MS4…
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Lawsuit Challenges EPA Approval of Weak Montana Pollution Rule
Earlier today Upper Missouri Waterkeeper sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over its approval of Montana’s weak, so-called ‘variance standards’ for nitrogen and phosphorus pollution. These variance standards displace strong, science-based pollution limits Montana earlier found necessary to protect waterways and fisheries….
Deadly Crossings: Neglected Bridges & Exploding Oil Trains
New Investigative Report Documents Nation’s Neglected Rail Infrastructure Waterkeepers from across the country identify significant areas of concern with 114 railway bridges along known and potential routes of explosive oil trains NEW YORK, NY AND SAN FRANCISCO, CA – November…
Lawsuit Challenges Pollution Loopholes & Exemptions in New, Federal Clean Water Rule
For Immediate Release, July 22, 2015 Contact: Guy Alsentzer, Upper Missouri Waterkeeper, 406-570-2202, guy@uppermissouriwaterkeeper.org Tina Posterli, Waterkeeper Alliance, 516-526-9371, tposterli@waterkeeper.org Adam Keats, Center for Food Safety, 415-826-2770, akeats@centerforfoodsafety.org Brett Hartl, Center for Biological Diversity, (202) 817-8121, bhartl@biologicaldiversity.org Lawsuit Challenges Pollution…
EPA Approves Montana’s Numeric Nutrient Rule Package
Last December 2014 we sent the EPA a Notice of Intent to Sue for their failure to take mandatory action on Montana’s recently submitted numeric nutrient water quality standards. EPA acknowledged it was legally required to take action on Montana’s rule…
Lawsuit Challenging DEQ Approval of Invalid Pollution Permit
Today, Upper Missouri Waterkeeper filed a lawsuit in the First Judicial District of Montana, Lewis & Clark County, challenging the Montana Dept. of Environmental Quality’s (DEQ) decision to issue a wastewater discharge permit that doesn’t comply with the Montana Water…
Notice of Intent to Sue EPA for Failure to Act on Montana’s New Water Quality Standards
Today we sent EPA a Notice of Intent to Sue (NOI) under the federal Clean Water Act for failure to approve or disapprove Montana’s numeric nutrient water quality standards. Click here to read our NOI. Click here to read a…
Victory: No Sewage Sludge Outside Ennis
Last summer 2014 the Montana DEQ proposed several applications to land apply sewage sludge and gray water, AKA septage, on landscapes directly outside Ennis, Montana, in the small community of Jeffers. Sewage sludge includes anything that is flushed, poured, or…
Proposed Clean Water Act Rule & Montana’s Waterways
Last Friday we joined Waterkeeper Alliance in submitting these technical comments to the Environmental Protection Agency concerning its proposed, revised rules defining the jurisdiction of the federal Clean Water Act. We support the Proposed Rule to the extent that it maintains…
Comments on Bozeman Landfill Remediation Plan
Today we submitted technical comments to the Montana Dept. of Environmental Quality concerning a proposed remediation plan for the old, closed City of Bozeman Landfill. Click the following link to read our comment letter: Comment.BZNLandfill-Oct-24-2014.pdf For decades the old City…