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Montana AG sued over new Colstrip law


TOM LUTEY
Montana’s Attorney General has been roped into a Colstrip Power Plant lawsuit for his new role as maintenance enforcer under laws created by the Montana Legislature.
The Legislature’s Republican majority empowered AG Austin Knudsen to dictate maintenance at Colstrip and to issue fines of $100,000 a day to power plant owners who didn’t comply.
Knudsen, who made it clear to The Billings Gazette during the legislative session that he played no supporting role in the lawmakers’ work, did not respond to calls both on Thursday and Friday for comment about the lawsuit.
Colstrip’s majority owners — Avista Corp. and Puget Sound Energy of Washington and PacifiCorp and Portland General Electric — are asking the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana, Billings Division for an injunction stopping Knudsen from enforcing the new Montana law, which they argue violates business contract rights protected in the U.S. C ....

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Montana Legislative Session Carries Echoes Of The Last Time GOP Held Power


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This week, Montana lawmakers gaveled into the second half of the legislative session. Republicans are advancing major conservative priorities, including a tax cut package. It harkens back to the last time the GOP controlled both the Legislature and governor’s office.
“During the session people will put out buttons for their bills sometimes, says retired 43-year government reporter Chuck Johnson as he rummages through drawers and drawers of political buttons in his Helena home.
“This was a button that came out memorializing the passage of deregulation in a bad way.”
It says, “Remember March 18, 1997. RIP MPC.”
MPC refers to the now-defunct Montana Power Company, the subject of a marquee piece of legislation from the last period of unified GOP statehouse control between 1995 and 2004. Republicans hadn’t had such power for 42 years prior. ....

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