Lawsuit Accuses Lincoln County Officials of Rebuffing Public Records Requests Seeking Information on Petition to ...
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An environmental organization is suing the board of commissioners in Lincoln County for refusing to disclose public information surrounding their petition to weaken water quality standards at the U.S.-Canada border, where pollutants leaching out of piles of coal-mining waste in British Columbia are contaminating the international watershed at Lake Koocanusa. The Montana Environmental Information Center (MEIC) filed the lawsuit Jan. 23 in Lincoln County District Court alleging the commissioners failed to respond to an information request for documents related to the commissioners’ June 2025 petition to the Montana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ). The petition sought to roll...