For Immediate Release,
April 15, 2021
Contact:
Bonnie Gestring, Earthworks, (406) 549-7361, bgestring@earthworksaction.org
Mary Crowe Costello, Rock Creek Alliance, (208) 610-4896, maryrca@rockcreekalliance.org
Derf Johnson, MEIC, (406) 443-2520, x 103, djohnson@meic.org
Jake Bleich, Defenders of Wildlife, (202) 772-3208, jbleich@defenders.org
Andrea Zaccardi, Center for Biological Diversity, (303) 854-7748, azaccardi@biologicaldiversity.org
Bonnie Rice, Sierra Club, (406) 582-8365 x 1, bonnie.rice@sierraclub.org
Federal Court Halts Proposed Rock Creek Mine in Montana’s Cabinet Mountains
Victory: Judge Throws Out Trump Administration’s Controversial Approval of Mine That Threatened Imperiled Grizzly Bears, Bull Trout
MISSOULA,
Mont.— The federal district court in Montana on Tuesday invalidated the federal government’s approval of the first phase of the Rock Creek Mine, a major copper and silver mine proposed beneath the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness in northwest Montana.