From the Wednesday, March 9, 2005 online edition of the Missoulian . . .
A decades-old water quality agency has asked Montana's congressional leaders to push harder for an international scientific review of environmental conditions related to coal and coalbed methane development in British Columbia.
In addition, the Flathead Basin Commission on Monday asked the federal lawmakers to help implement a 1988 recommendation, specifically that the governments work together to craft land management strategies in the Canadian Flathead.
That recommendation came from the International Joint Commission, a binational body created by treaty to resolve transboundary water conflicts between Canada and the United States.
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