HELENA, Montana, June 30 -- Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen issued the following news release on June 28, 2022: Following the landmark United States Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen today asked the state Supreme Court to order additional briefing to address the new precedent in a state abortion case. "Dobbs marks an obvious watershed in federal abortion jurisprudence. "But given Armstrong's explicit reliance more PR

HELENA, Montana, June 30 -- Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen issued the following news release on June 28, 2022: Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen today called on federal courts promote responsible energy production on federal land by stopping manipulative abuses of procedure environmental standards. In an amicus brief filed today in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Knudsen asked the full court to review a panel decision that sent a permit to expand the Bu more PR

HELENA, Montana, July 1 -- Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen issued the following news release: As a result of a lawsuit brought by Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen and other state attorneys general, the U.S. Supreme Court has limited the power of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to issue sweeping dictates that attempt to reorder entire economic sectors and regulate wide swaths of everyday life. In West Virginia, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al., the more PR

HELENA, Montana, July 2 -- The Montana Democratic Party issued the following news release on July 1, 2022: In the aftermath of the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs V. Jackson Women's Health, which overturned Roe v. Wade, Montana's own state constitution has never been more important or more vulnerable. Abortion is still legal in the state of Montana, thanks to our state constitution. The Courts recognize that our Constitution's iron-clad guarantee of the right to privacy includes the right of more PR

BOZEMAN, Montana, June 30 (TNSres) -- Montana State University issued the following news release: The Montana State University Extension Pesticide Education Program, or PEP, has recognized two individuals for exceptional efforts benefiting farm pesticide applicators across the state. The program presented the 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award to Ken Nelson, McCone County Extension agricultural and 4-H agent, and the 2022 Early Achievement Award to Inga Hawbaker, Daniels County Extension agricult more PR

BOZEMAN, Montana, June 28 (TNSjou) -- Montana State University issued the following news release: Optics researchers at Montana State University have been honored for a journal article discussing their work to advance an innovative technology for measuring the composition of clouds. The paper, titled "Passive Shortwave-infrared Polarimetric Sensing of Cloud Thermodynamic Phase," recently received the 2021 Best Paper Award for Theoretical Innovation from the Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, w more PR

BILLINGS, Montana, June 28 (TNSres) -- Montana State University-Billings issued the following news: By Maureen Brakke, director of University Communications & Marketing Recent Montana State University Billings environmental studies graduate and pilot Sarah Cozart missed her recent college graduation to fly on a research mission for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to locate an endangered whale species, the North Atlantic right whale. Cozart is currently flying in the Gulf of more PR

BOZEMAN, Montana, June 29 (TNSres) -- Montana State University issued the following news release: By Emme Demmendaal A Montana State University professor has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award that will take her to Townsville, Australia, to study applied environmental theater -- a style that sets its action in the real world rather than a traditional theater -- and write an adaptation of William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night." "It's a big honor to receive the Fulbright," said Gretchen more PR

BOZEMAN, Montana, June 28 (TNSres) -- Montana State University issued the following news release: Articles by two Montana State University history doctoral students were published in the recent issue of Montana: The Magazine of Western History. The spring issue of the magazine included an article written by Micah Chang, "Oasis on the Hi-Line," about the history of Sleeping Buffalo Hot Springs. Another, by Kirke Elsass, explores how the expanding use of cement in civic projects around the state more PR