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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1 week ago |
nbcmontana.com | Amanda Eggert
HELENA, Mont. — Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte last week signed into law a handful of bills revising the Montana Environmental Policy Act, the state’s 54-year-old “look-before-you-leap” law that directs state agencies to study and disclose large projects’ environmental impacts before issuing permits.
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1 week ago |
montanafreepress.org | Amanda Eggert
Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte last week signed into law a handful of bills revising the Montana Environmental Policy Act, the state’s 54-year-old “look-before-you-leap” law that directs state agencies to study and disclose large projects’ environmental impacts before issuing permits. The Held v. Montana ruling issued by the state Supreme Court in December played a prominent role in lawmakers’ handling of MEPA during the 69th legislative session that adjourned last week.
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1 week ago |
marijuanamoment.net | Amanda Eggert
“It increases the pace and scale of habitat stewardship and restoration treatments across rural Montana to improve our land, wildlife and water resources.”By Amanda Eggert, Montana Free PressTwo bills seeking to reallocate the recreational marijuana taxes the state collects are bound for Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte’s (R) desk.
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2 weeks ago |
montanafreepress.org | Amanda Eggert
Two bills seeking to reallocate the recreational marijuana taxes the state collects are bound for Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte’s desk. Senate Bill 537, described by its sponsor as a “cops and conservation bill,” cleared its final legislative vote Tuesday, garnering support from three-quarters of state lawmakers. The following day, House Bill 932, which addresses only the conservation and water side of the marijuana-supported funding equation, also passed out of the Legislature.
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2 weeks ago |
bozemandailychronicle.com | Amanda Eggert
The U.S. Department of the Interior, which manages more than 480 million acres of federal land across the country, has pledged to “implement emergency permitting procedures” to facilitate fossil fuel and critical mineral development. The department described its revised energy development directive as an effort to expedite permitting timelines so reviews that typically take several months or years can be reduced “to just weeks,” according to a press release the department issued April 23.
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RT @mtfreepress: Montana’s environmental regulator has denied a petition to designate the Big Hole River as impaired by nitrogen and phosph…
RT @mtfreepress: The Trump administration announced last week that it would “expedite permitting” for 10 mining projects across the country…
RT @mtfreepress: Both Senate Bill 537 and House Bill 932 seek to establish a habitat legacy account, which could be used to fund habitat im…