Colstrip

The Billings Gazette reports the Northern Cheyenne Tribe will receive up to $270,000 for a street sweeper and the city of Colstrip will receive up to $103,000 for a building to store road de-icer.

District Judge Kathy Seeley in 2016 ordered the state Department of Environmental Quality to reconsider the permit for the Rosebud strip mine, which fuels the nearby Colstrip power plant.

"Montana needs Governor on workers' side." While you may disagree with the contents of the op-ed, the headline nails it: we haven't had a governor on the workers' side in years. Instead, Gov. Steve Bullock has done the bidding of the deep-pocketed, radical environmental groups.

About a third of the plant’s 330 employees work with Units 1 and 2, and Talen plans to keep as many of them as possible once they close Dec. 31,

Politico's Alex Thompson: "Bullock now against coal. Schumer's hopes of a Sen. run fade."

The partial closure would be the latest among coal-fired plants going offline across the nation.

One of the bill’s sponsors, said the bill had been “thoroughly remodeled” in the House and he wasn’t sure if he would have voted for it.

The Majority Leader of the Montana House of Representatives is working to help a bill pass the legislature that he says will provide a stable source of energy for Montana into the future.

Congressman Greg Gianforte (R-MT) politely, but directly, laid into Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D-WA) during a congressional hearing earlier this week. Meanwhile, the Seattle press mock Inslee (a 2020 Dem presidential contender) for his response.

So, to break it down for you: this is the guy who wants to shut down Colstrip- a major job and revenue provider in Montana, due to his concerns about greenhouse gas emissions. Maybe he should focus on his own backyard before trying to trash ours.