Northern Plains Resource Council
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The Northern Plains Resource Council is an environmental lobbying organization based in Montana
. It was founded in 1972 to lobby for stricter environmental controls on coal mining and coal fired power plants.
Montana
Montana is a state in the Western United States. The western third of Montana contains numerous mountain ranges. Smaller, "island ranges" are found in the central third of the state, for a total of 77 named ranges of the Rocky Mountains. This geographical fact is reflected in the state's name,...
. It was founded in 1972 to lobby for stricter environmental controls on coal mining and coal fired power plants.