{"id":1059327,"date":"2023-04-12T05:38:01","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T05:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=279024"},"modified":"2023-04-12T05:38:01","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T05:38:01","slug":"50-years-of-waiting-for-our-inalienable-right-to-a-clean-and-healthful-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/04\/12\/50-years-of-waiting-for-our-inalienable-right-to-a-clean-and-healthful-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"50 Years of Waiting for Our \u2018Inalienable Right\u2019 to a \u2018Clean and Healthful Environment\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kudos to the Montana Environmental Information Center and Earthjustice for\u00a0their recent court victory\u00a0challenging the adequacy of the state\u2019s pitiful permitting process for NorthWestern Energy\u2019s Laurel natural gas power plant. Once again, a judge has found Montana\u2019s mis-named Department of Environmental Quality guilty of cutting corners, ignoring and misinterpreting state law, and shuffling off another permit  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/04\/12\/50-years-of-waiting-for-our-inalienable-right-to-a-clean-and-healthful-environment\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/04\/12\/50-years-of-waiting-for-our-inalienable-right-to-a-clean-and-healthful-environment\/\">50 Years of Waiting for Our &#8216;Inalienable Right&#8217; to a &#8216;Clean and Healthful Environment&#8217;<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/04\/12\/50-years-of-waiting-for-our-inalienable-right-to-a-clean-and-healthful-environment\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kudos to the Montana Environmental Information Center and Earthjustice for\u00a0their recent court victory\u00a0challenging the adequacy of the state\u2019s pitiful permitting process for NorthWestern Energy\u2019s Laurel natural gas power plant. Once again, a judge has f&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1059327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1059328,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059327\/revisions\/1059328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1059327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1059327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1059327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}