The Montana Environmental Information Center is a non-profit environmental advocate for clean water and a healthy environment for all Montanans.  It was founded in 1973 by  Montanans concerned about protecting and restoring Montana's natural environment.

MEIC’s accomplishments and experience have earned it the reputation of being Montana’s leading state government-focused advocate, and the leading group promoting progress in environmental policy pertaining to:

• hardrock mining
• energy policy and global warming

• BREAKING NEWS ON THE HIGHWOOD GENERATING STATION:  Co-op gives up trying to build coal plant (2/3/09)

• air quality
• water quality
  
• land use and State land management
• environmental policy

MEIC collaborates with a wide variety of state, regional and national environmental groups. MEIC also works with new voices for environmental protection including business, farming, labor, tribal, education, religious, and public health interests.

MEIC’s membership consists of nearly 5,000 individuals in Montana and around the country who support MEIC both financially and with their activism.

Banner image by Larry Flowers, National Renewable Energy Laboratory.