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DEQ Ordered To Study Gas Plant’s Greenhouse Emissions
Two weeks after the Montana Supreme Court directed state agencies to consider climate impacts in environmental reviews of large projects, it hinted at what the energy-permitting implications of that ruling will look like in practice. In an order issued Jan. 3, the court directed the Montana Department of Environmental Quality to incorporate the greenhouse gas emissions associated with a recently constructed gas plant in the agency’s review of plant impacts.
In a trio of opinions, the court allowed the Yellowstone County Generating Station’s permit to stand, but directed the agency to analyze the climate impacts of the plant estimated to release more than 23 million tons of greenhouse gases over its 30-year operational life. NorthWestern Energy, owner of the 175-megawatt plant, started feeding electricity from the plant onto the grid two months ago, after the plant survived a challenge environmentalists filed in district court challenging its permit in 2021.
Reining in illegal immigration ranks as a top priority for Montana’s now entirely Republican federal delegation as they head to Washington, D.C., for the next Congress. The immigration drumbeat by Republicans in elections since 2016 is that Montana, to borrow a phrase from U.S. Sen Steve Daines, is a “northern border state with a southern border problem.” That concern is, however, complicated by Montana’s increasing reliance on foreign labor.
The year just ended with a flurry of national attention paid to visas for professional workers, or H-1B work permits, as Elon Musk argued with anti-immigration Republicans on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter about the need for H-1Bs to compensate for a dearth of skilled tech workers. The number of foreign workers sought by employers in Montana has nearly doubled since 2016. In 2024, employers applied for about 3,000 visa positions. Of the approximately 11 million immigrants living in the country without legal permission, about 42% are people who have overstayed visas instead of crossing one of the nation’s borders illegally, according to the Congressional Research Service.
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