It is often said in Montana that the farmers and ranchers are the first environmentalists.  You take care of the land and resources that are your livelihood.  MEIC takes a similar stand:  caring for the environment is good business for Montana.  We work to protect the natural resources we all depend upon, including the precious water that irrigates our crops and pastures. 

MEIC is working closely with ranchers in Hilger, Montana, whose water quality and quantity has been negatively impacted by poor practices at the Kendall Mine.   MEIC is partnering with farmers and ranchers in Eastern Montana to ensure that any development of Montana's coal bed methane resources happens in an environmentally sound manner, not depleting and contaminating limited groundwater supplies.

MEIC is also working to end perpetual water pollution by not granting permits to new mines that require perpetual water treatment, and to limit mercury pollution from coal-fired power plants that is contaminating our waterways and native fish.