Groups challenge Trump’s ’emergency’ orders that allow a Bull Mountain Mine expansion

By: Darrell Ehrlick

Outlets: Daily Montanan

Published: March 3, 2026

Words: 1,408

Last Updated: 1 week ago

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A lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal district court in Billings challenges the “emergency” orders issued by President Donald Trump that have allowed the Department of the Interior to bypass oversight and public comment and expand coal mining in the Bull Mountains.

The lawsuit claims that emergency conditions don’t remotely match the temporary definitions of what constitutes an emergency in federal law. Furthermore, nearly all of the coal mined at the Bull Mountains Mine heads to …

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