Environmental Protection Agency

The Environmental Protection Agency says it’s halting a program that could have helped low-income Montanans reduce their power bills. The “Solar for All” program, which helped homeowners buy and install solar panels, was eliminated by the President's tax and spending bill.

There have long been restrictions to protect Libby residents from drinking water contaminated by a former lumber mill. But a new report finds more properties outside the city may be at risk.

Federal officials last week canceled a $20 million grant to build a community center in Butte. The cancellation came hours after local officials gained access to the funds

Federal environmental regulators have decided how they’ll clean up toxic soil at a former aluminum plant in Columbia Falls. One local group disagrees with the plan to contain contaminated waste on site.

The Environmental Protection Agency last month proposed to increase cleanup of residential lead contamination in Butte.

The Environmental Protection Agency Wednesday released a new plan that will expand the number of homes in Butte eligible to receive free cleanup of lead contamination.

The country’s highest court ruled to uphold new federal standards limiting arsenic, lead and mercury emissions from coal plants on Friday.

Lawyers for U.S. environmental regulators have rejected claims that new pollution standards should be paused to help Montana’s Colstrip power plant.

Two of the energy companies that own Colstrip want the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene and pause new federal emissions standards passed earlier this year.

Federal officials say a 400-acre industrial site in Libby is clean and is no longer a threat to the community. The site was contaminated with asbestos.