EPA Moves to End Asbestos Cleanup Along Montana Railroad March 25, 2022 By Matthew Brown Environmental regulators are moving to end a years-long cleanup along dozens of miles of railroad in two northwestern Montana communities...
Pipeline’s Safeguards Malfunctioned in Louisiana Diesel Spill February 21, 2022 By Matthew Brown and Janet McConnaughey A corroded pipeline that ruptured and spilled 350,000 gallons (1.6 million liters) of diesel fuel into a New Orleans-area wetland...
Pipeline’s Safeguards Malfunctioned in Louisiana Diesel Spill February 9, 2022 By Matthew Brown and Janet McConnaughey A corroded pipeline that ruptured and spilled 350,000 gallons (1.6 million liters) of diesel fuel into a New Orleans area...
Ruptured Pipeline Spills 300,000 Gallons of Diesel Near New Orleans January 13, 2022 By Matthew Brown and Janet McConnaughey A severely corroded pipeline ruptured and spilled more than 300,000 gallons (1 million liters) of diesel fuel just outside New...
Safeguards for Leaking California Oil Pipe’s Not Fully Working December 10, 2021 By Brian Melley and Matthew Brown The ruptured offshore pipeline that spilled tens of thousands of gallons of crude oil off the Southern California coast this...
Slow Response to Report of California Oil Spill, Records Show October 6, 2021 By Brian Melley, Matthew Brown and Stefanie Dazio The U.S. Coast Guard received the first report of a possible oil spill off the Southern California coast more than...
Thanks to Oil Boom, N. Dakota County Sees Fastest Growth in US September 8, 2021 By Matthew Brown First came the roughnecks and other oil field workers, almost all men. Lured by steady wages as the nation climbed...
Wildfires Threaten Rural Towns in Montana, California August 13, 2021 By Matthew Brown Wildfires in Montana threatened rural towns and ranchland while victims of a California blaze returned to their incinerated community, even...
Settlement Reached in Lawsuit Against Affluent Montana Club April 30, 2021 By Matthew Brown Dozens of Jamaican citizens recruited to work as cooks, servers and housekeepers at a Montana ski resort for the ultra-rich...
Care for Montana Towns Polluted with Asbestos Transferred to State July 6, 2020 By Matthew Brown State regulators are taking over maintenance of a decades-long environmental cleanup in two northwestern Montana towns where lung-damaging asbestos contamination...