Montana Oil and Gas Conservation Board

Q2 reports that leaders from Montana’s fossil fuel industry met with Congressman Greg Gianforte Thursday in Billings to discuss the future of the industry and help navigate federal regulations. The discussion focused on what changes can be made to federal permitting at a round table discussion which featured representatives of coal and oil and gas companies...

The Montana Oil and Gas Conservation Board turned back an effort to force energy companies to inform the public about toxic hydraulic fracturing chemicals used extract oil and gas trapped in rock formations.  Environmental groups, health advocates and landowners want companies to disclose the nature of the large volumes of industrial chemicals pumped into the soil, bedrock and even sources of grou