Amanda Eggert
Reporter at Montana Free Press
Reporter for @mtfreepress living in The Last Best Place. Interests: public policy impacts, the environment, wildfire, people who follow unusual callings.
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flatheadbeacon.com | Amanda Eggert
Energy The Public Service Commission is set to debate whether electricity rates should include the cost of NorthWestern’s new gas plant later this month. By Amanda Eggert, Montana Free Press April 17, 2025 NorthWestern Energy is pitching the state’s utility board on a 9.14% increase in natural gas rates, according to the terms of a settlement the utility reached with consumer representatives over a rate increase request NorthWestern filed in July.
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news-journal.com | Amanda Eggert
NorthWestern Energy is pitching the state’s utility board on a 9.14% increase in natural gas rates, according to the terms of a settlement the utility reached with consumer representatives over a rate increase request NorthWestern filed in July. The agreement doesn’t settle an open question about raising electricity rates to pay for the gas plant NorthWestern recently built in Laurel.
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chronicle-tribune.com | Amanda Eggert
Two conservation groups are petitioning the Montana Department of Environmental Quality to designate the Big Hole River, a treasured southwestern Montana fishery, as impaired for nutrient pollution. The groups argue that an impairment designation will lead the state to put the Big Hole on a “pollution diet” to limit the nitrogen and phosphorous that are contributing to the fishery-damaging algal blooms that have become a recurrent issue. kAmr@>>@? D@FC46D @7 ?FEC:6?E A@==FE:@?
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montanafreepress.org | Amanda Eggert
Montana lawmakers are considering a proposal to unwind parts of a 2023 bill that guaranteed large nonresident landowners access to a big-game hunting license. House Bill 907 strikes portions of House Bill 635, which narrowly passed the Legislature two years ago. HB 635 established a new nonresident preference pool program that effectively guaranteed nonresident landowners with 2,500 acres of land access to a big-game combination license good for one elk and one deer.
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apnews.com | Amanda Eggert
Two conservation groups are petitioning the Montana Department of Environmental Quality to designate the Big Hole River, a treasured southwestern Montana fishery, as impaired for nutrient pollution. The groups argue that an impairment designation will lead the state to put the Big Hole on a “pollution diet” to limit the nitrogen and phosphorous that are contributing to the fishery-damaging algal blooms that have become a recurrent issue.
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Legislature advances bills loosening water quality standards: After Mercer finished his intro, 3 proponents testified: Sonja Nowakowski & Lindsey Krywaruchka w/ @DeqMontana & @TroutUnlimited Conservation & Gov Affairs Dir. Clayton Elliott #mtleg #mtpol https://t.co/5X7kmjZoxh
Montana lawmakers on Wednesday overwhelmingly rejected Senate Bill 358, a proposal to overhaul exempt well regulations that was nearly two years in the making. https://t.co/3WMrCg1ejf via @MTFreePress #mtnews #mtpol
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