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politics of climate change

US renews threat to leave IEA

US renews threat to leave IEA

US Energy Secretary Chris Wright renewed his threat Thursday to pull out of the International Energy Agency, warning that Washington would push over the next year for the organisation to abandon the net-zero "agenda". Speaking on the last day of an IEA ministerial meeting in Paris, Wright

Environmental groups sue Trump administration over scrapped climate rule

Environmental groups sue Trump administration over scrapped climate rule

A coalition of environmental and health groups filed suit Wednesday against the Trump administration's repeal of a key scientific finding that underpinned federal climate regulations. The action taken in a Washington appeals court argues that Republican President Donald Trump's move -- which eliminated greenhouse gas standards on

Climate Week returns for a fifth semester

Climate Week is back at MSU, allowing students to learn more about climate change and the science behind it. This event series originated on campus in April 2023 through collaboration between the Campus Climate Coalition (CCC) and the faculty-led Climate Solutions Group. Now in its fifth consecutive semester, Climate

WARD initiative seeks to address housing crisis

In the early 1980s, a landslide caused a breach in the Mystic Lake Dam south of Bozeman. The eventual collapse of the dam triggered a water crisis in the community that led to the development of a city water adequacy policy, according to Shawn Kohtz, the City of Bozeman’s

MontPIRG seeks to embolden future civic leaders

MontPIRG is a nonpartisan, student-led advocacy group aimed at creating civic leadership through hands-on experience with state and local policymaking, according to Carl Anderson, MontPIRG’s Bozeman-Billings regional director. The organization, which is governed by a board of undergraduate students from MSU and the University of Montana

Bozeman officials pass codes improving protections for local wetlands

Bozeman officials pass codes improving protections for local wetlands

In an effort to strengthen protection for local wetlands, the Bozeman City Commission passed a set of development codes last week increasing the minimum buffer between wetlands and developments from 10 feet to 25. The legislation was passed Sept. 9 in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2023