Upper Missouri Waterkeeper is actively seeking 1-3 new board members in 2017. If you believe in our mission and have the skills and experience we are looking for (see below), we encourage you to apply. Please review our description of Board…
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2017 Federal Legislation & the Environment: What You Need to Know
Bad Bill Tracking A little over a week past, President Trump signed an executive order setting up “regulatory reform officers” and “task forces” within the agencies to help carry out the destruction of regulations. Stopping regulatory “overreach” is one thing, but destroying agencies…
Montana’s New General Permit for Construction Stormwater
Montana DEQ is nearly finished updating its rules addressing the pollution impacts of construction sites on local creeks and streams. Last week we submitted preliminary comments on DEQ’s rough draft General Permit for Construction Stormwater. What’s a Construction Stormwater General Permit? …
Cleaning Up Urban Stormwater Pollution
(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…
Big Sky’s Big Water Challenges
For the past 6 months Upper Missouri Waterkeeper has been an official stakeholder in the ‘Big Sky Sustainable Water Solutions Forum.’ The Forum was created as a means to gather community input on how Big Sky can best address the diverse…