MONTANA ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION CENTER INC
PO Box 1184, Helena, MT 59624 www.meic.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: MEIC's mission is to protect and restore Montana's clean and healthful natural environment. It is a nonprofit environmental advocate founded in 1973 and incorporated in 1974. Its most significant activities include: monitoring and influencing State government actions; educating the public about the environment and environmental issues; and providing individuals and other nonprofit organizations with advice and assistance. MEIC works on a broad range of issues, including water and air quality, global warming and climate change, energy policies, hardrock and coal mining, local land use planning and development, management of State-owned lands, and defending Montanans' constitutional rights to a clean and healthful environment and to participate in government.MEIC's financial support comes primarily from its members and other nonprofit organizations. (Also see Part III of this form.)

To protect and restore Montana's clean and healthful natural environment

Monitored and influenced the decisions and activities of Montana State government (primarily), and the federal government and Montana local governments (secondarily), that affect the natural environment. MEIC's staff and volunteers talked to, met with, and wrote to government officials on hundreds of occasions during the year, attended hundreds of hearings and public meetings (including many during Montana's biennial legislative session), submitted written comments on proposed government actions at least 50 times during the year, and were responsible for generating thousands of communications from MEIC members and the general public to government officials. In addition, MEIC was a plaintiff or intervenor in a number of legal actions involving government decisions.

Educated individuals about environmental issues, the natural environment, and their constitutional rights. MEIC published in print or electronic form eight issues of two newsletters that were distributed to as many as 6,000 households and organizations, sponsored four pubic events, made presentations to student and civic groups, distributed a hundred or more print and electronic alerts, and maintained an active presence in the various social media (including being followed by more than 10,000 people on Facebook). In addition, MEIC was a source of information for over 50 stories in the print and electronic media, in Montana and throughout the country, and was specifically mentioned in news stories, or its staff or volunteers quoted, over 50 times.

Helped individuals and other nonprofit organizations to address environmental issues of concern to them. MEIC assisted over 200 individuals during the year on a one-to-one basis by providing them with information and advice, and worked with at least 20 nonprofit organizations, often on a continuing basis, providing information, strategic and technical assistance, and services.

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