ARTICLES BY STEVE THOMPSON

Climate change is real: 'What then should we do?'

The rain is finally falling in Montana, and our Southern coastal states are drying out. It’s finally time to have a serious conversation about climate change.
THE WESTERN NEWS | UPDATED 7 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Climate change is real: 'What then should we do?'

The rain is finally falling in Montana, and our Southern coastal states are drying out. It’s finally time to have a serious conversation about climate change.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 7 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Climate change is real: 'What then should we do?'

The rain is finally falling in Montana, and our Southern coastal states are drying out. It’s finally time to have a serious conversation about climate change.
BIGFORK EAGLE | UPDATED 7 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Voting for Hildner and Sweeney

John Muhlfeld, Richard Hildner and Frank Sweeney have earned my respect as mayor and city councilors. I’ll be voting for their re-election. Here’s why:
WHITEFISH PILOT | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

Electric co-ops should embrace new emissions rules

We are members of Montana’s rural electric co-ops. We live in rural areas of Montana and feel firsthand the impacts of climate change, from decreased stream flows, earlier snowmelt, drought and increasing soil aridity to extreme heat, hail, severe wildfires and sudden flooding. Our lands, crops, communities, lifestyles and economies …
THE WESTERN NEWS | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO

Zinke now more politics, less leadership

DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Gov. Bullock, it's time to act on climate change

In 2005, then-Gov. Brian Schweitzer directed Montana’s Department of Environmental Quality to create a Climate Change Advisory Council to find cost-effective solutions to global warming. Schweitzer had been in office less than a year, and this seemed like a promising first step on climate change for his administration. But almost …
WHITEFISH PILOT | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Gov. Bullock, it's time to act on climate change

In 2005, then-Gov. Brian Schweitzer directed Montana’s Department of Environmental Quality to create a Climate Change Advisory Council to find cost-effective solutions to global warming. Schweitzer had been in office less than a year, and this seemed like a promising first step on climate change for his administration. But almost …
HUNGRY HORSE NEWS | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Gov. Bullock, it's time to act on climate change

In 2005, then-Gov. Brian Schweitzer directed Montana’s Department of Environmental Quality to create a Climate Change Advisory Council to find cost-effective solutions to global warming. Schweitzer had been in office less than a year, and this seemed like a promising first step on climate change for his administration. But almost …
BIGFORK EAGLE | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Local and global impacts of coal

Clint McRae’s family has ranched Montana’s Tongue River Valley for 135 years. Now two powerful corporations are asking the federal government to seize a nine mile swath of his land — and to turn it over to them — so they can export coal to China.
HUNGRY HORSE NEWS | UPDATED 12 YEARS AGO

Local and global impacts of coal

Clint McRae’s family has ranched Montana’s Tongue River Valley for 135 years. Now two powerful corporations are asking the federal government to seize a nine mile swath of his land — and to turn it over to them — so they can export coal to China.
WHITEFISH PILOT | UPDATED 12 YEARS AGO

Local and global impacts of coal

Clint McRae’s family has ranched Montana’s Tongue River Valley for 135 years. Now two powerful corporations are asking the federal government to seize a nine mile swath of his land — and to turn it over to them — so they can export coal to China.
BIGFORK EAGLE | UPDATED 12 YEARS AGO

Oil and gas development in North Fork a 'tricky' question

While oil spews into the Gulf of Mexico, it is important to remember that BP recently had the Flathead River and Glacier National Park in its crosshairs, proposing to drill hundreds of coalbed methane wells in the Canadian headwaters of the North Fork. This project would have generated millions of …
HUNGRY HORSE NEWS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

Oil and gas development in North Fork a 'tricky' question

While oil spews into the Gulf of Mexico, it is important to remember that BP recently had the Flathead River and Glacier National Park in its crosshairs, proposing to drill hundreds of coalbed methane wells in the Canadian headwaters of the North Fork. This project would have generated millions of …
WHITEFISH PILOT | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

Oil and gas development in North Fork a 'tricky' question

While oil spews into the Gulf of Mexico, it is important to remember that BP recently had the Flathead River and Glacier National Park in its crosshairs, proposing to drill hundreds of coalbed methane wells in the Canadian headwaters of the North Fork. This project would have generated millions of …
BIGFORK EAGLE | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

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