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Mining organizations and renewable trade groups say the long permitting timelines and litigation delays for mining projects are incompatible with the urgent demand for materials needed to decarbonize the economy.

Currently, there are two lawsuits that are challenging Senate Bill 419, which bans TikTok from Montana beginning on Jan. 1, 2024, and fines any company who allows the app to be downloaded as much as $10,000 per download.

A recent survey of academics across a broad swath of disciplines found that nearly one out of five respondents have witnessed or know someone who has witnessed unidentified aerial phenomena.

When a wind-driven wildfire burned on Mount Helena last August, aerial firefighting operations were delayed for about 10 minutes because of an unauthorized drone.

The new NREL funds come from the Inflation Reduction Act, a climate change, health care and tax package Biden signed last year.

The plaintiffs want a federal judge to declare the ban invalid and to permanently bar the state from enforcing it. They are represented by Natasha Prinzing Jones and Matthew Hayhurst with Boone Karlberg in Missoula.

TikTok has denied data-collection claims and some Montana businesses have said banning the app would take away a key platform for advertising.

The companies want their AI to take notes for physicians and give them second opinions — assuming they can keep the intelligence from “hallucinating” or, for that matter, divulging patients’ private information.

Lawmakers didn't review Gianforte's amendments before going home.

Democrats oppose the bill saying that it helped small business owners market their products and that the ban was unenforceable.