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Montana U.S. House candidate and former Secretary of Interior Ryan Zinke, left, speaks with patrons at Metals Sports Bar and Grill, May 13, 2022, in Butte, Mont. Zinke is seeking election to a newly created U.S. House district and has been criticized by some fellow Republicans in the GOP primary for not being conservative enough. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown)

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Trump ally Zinke fights claim he's too liberal for Montana
By MATTHEW BROWN - Associated Press
Wed,05/25/22-11:41PM , 374 Reads
BUTTE, Mont. (AP) — When Republican Ryan Zinke first ran for Congress, the former Navy SEAL faced false accusations amplified by Democrats that his military career had ended in disgrace.
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In this Sept. 18, 2021 photo, emissions rise from the smokestacks at the Jeffrey Energy Center coal power plant as the suns sets, near Emmett, Kans. As climate change bakes the planet, dozens of nations including the U.S. and many local governments are putting a price tag on greenhouse gas emissions that are causing more floods, droughts and other destructive events. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

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EXPLAINER: Can climate change be solved by pricing carbon?
By MATTHEW BROWN - Associated Press
Fri,04/22/22-12:33PM , 231 Reads
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — As climate change bakes the planet, dozens of nations and many local governments are putting a price tag on greenhouse gas emissions that are increasing flooding, droughts and other costly catastrophes.
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In this Nov. 27, 2012 photo, endangered Mississippi sandhill cranes stand in their temporary transitional habitat, to be later released into the wild, at the Mississippi Sandhill Crane National Wildlife Refuge in Gautier, Miss. U.S. wildlife officials have reversed their previous finding that a widely used and highly toxic pesticide could jeopardize the cranes and dozens of other plants and animals with extinction (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

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US officials reverse course on pesticide's harm to wildlife
By MATTHEW BROWN - Associated Press
Tue,03/08/22-10:30AM , 314 Reads
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — U.S.
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FILE -Firefighters work at the scene of forest fire near Kyuyorelyakh village at Gorny Ulus area, west of Yakutsk, in Russia Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021. A warming planet and land use changes mean more wildfires will scorch large parts of the globe in coming decades. That's according to a UN report released Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2022 that says many governments are ill-prepared to address the problem. (AP Photo/Ivan Nikiforov, File)

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UN: Wildfires getting worse globally, governments unprepared
By MATTHEW BROWN - Associated Press
Wed,02/23/22-12:01AM , 343 Reads
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A warming planet and changes to land use patterns mean more wildfires will scorch large parts of the globe in coming decades, causing spikes in unhealthy smoke pollution and other problems that governments are ill prepared to confront, according to a U.N. report released Wednesday.
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