Facts & Figures
This industry is the number one driver of climate change impacts.
What is the fossil fuel industry?
This federal agency, created in 1970, is responsible for setting and enforcing emissions standards.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?
This major Montana town is known as a hub for coal-fired power generation.
What is Colstrip?
What 3 countries emit the most CO2?
What is China, the U.S., and India?
This international treaty aims to limit global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial levels.
What is the Paris Agreement?
This right in the Montana Constitution was upheld by the Montana Supreme Court in the youth climate case, Held v. Montana, in 2024.
What is the right to a clean and healthful environment?
Fossil fuels are responsible for this percentage of human-caused carbon dioxide emissions.
What is 90%?
(Will accept 85 to 95%)
In January 2025, a new administration declared this type of "emergency" to expedite the development of energy production.
What is an energy emergency?
This governing body regulates NorthWestern Energy-- Montana's energy utility--approving infrastructure projects and setting consumer rates.
What is the Public Service Commission?
This number is the estimated amount of oil used per minute in the U.S. for transportation.
What is over 250,000 gallons per minute?
(Will accept 200-300 thousand gal/min)
This president was in office during the establishment of all three: the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Environmental Protection Agency.
Who is Former President Richard Nixon?
This bipartisan bill would have established a framework for shared/community solar in Montana, but was vetoed by Governor Gianforte.
What is the Montana Solar Shares Act (SB 188)?
This number is the estimated premature deaths caused by pollution from fossil fuels.
What is 8 million?
(Will accept a few to ten million)
This bill was signed into law under the Biden Administration to incentivize and subsidize renewable energy projects.
What is the Inflation Reduction Act?
This number is the amount of generating capacity recently acquired by NorthWestern Energy at the Colstrip Power Plant.
What is 222 MW?
(Will accept 200-250 MW)