Following EPA’s Approval of Montana’s Water Quality Rollback, Groups Act to Protect from Pollution Today, Upper Missouri Waterkeeper launched a new petition for Montanans to sign demanding the Montana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) pause any new or renewed pollution…
1. What just happened? The 2025 Montana Legislature passed and Governor Gianforte signed HB 664, a piece of legislation that rolls back numeric nutrient water quality standards for all water pollution control and water restoration purposes across the State. 2….
Gutting Water Protections by Repealing Numeric Nutrient Standards Contrary to Science and Federal Law Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sent a letter to the Montana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) approving the state’s repeal of scientific numeric nutrient…
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…
On January 2, 2014 we joined Waterkeeper Alliance in submitting this WQS Comment Letter to EPA concerning its proposal to amend existing water quality standards (WQS) under the federal Clean Water Act. We helped draft these comments because strong WQS are essential to…
