Montana Business

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Is the Pennsylvania-based company interested in buying regulated assets in Montana, perhaps those once held by Montana Power Co. and now owned by NorthWestern Energy?

Zinc Air of Columbia Falls has been developing a new generation of batteries to store electricity generated by wind power and to distribute it to the power grid on demand.

Blue Marble Biomaterials http://bluemarblebio.com/ is inventing the future of food and other products, carving out a piece of a $43 billion business.

By tweaking ingredients, Blue Marble has the potential of making more than 50,000 different products.

As it stands, Montana exceeds the national average for the number of workplace injuries in just about every employment category, Miller said.

"On every single one of these our incident rates are higher than the national average," he said. "This is a huge problem … These are the root causes for why we have high workers’ compensation rates."

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"These aggressive marketing tactics are making it difficult and expensive for Montana business owners who are trying to follow the law," said Labor Commissioner Keith Kelly.

"We talked a bit about the importance of tourism and the dollars it brings in throughout the state, particularly in a town like Livingston that relies heavily on outsiders coming in and spending money in town," Gigone said. "We couldn’t survive without it."

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