Whether you are a fourth-generation Montanan, relocated here, or dream of visiting again someday, you value Montana for its magnificent mountains, clean air and water, and wide open spaces. 

MEIC is Montana’s environmental “watchdog.”  The organization is perhaps best know for the twice-won, citizen-initiated law banning cyanide heap-leach mining in Montana. 

MEIC also has successfully influenced state and federal agencies for more than three decades, monitoring issues from old growth forest protection, to standards for coal bed methane development in Eastern Montana, to air and water pollution permits. When all else fails, MEIC utilizes litigation to ensure that environmental laws are complied with.

As part of the Coalition to Protect the Rocky Mountain Front, MEIC has worked to prevent fossil fuel development and oil and gas exploration in this unique and sensitive environment.