High Country News

No longer the safest place

One ideal corner of the Northwest can’t escape environmental impacts from the rest of the world.

by Pepper Trail, Aug 08, 2012
Clean air, hazy politics

A new Colorado air quality law pits coal against natural gas -- and rural environmentalists against urban ones.

by Allen Best, May 19, 2010
Greens need to occupy the Occupy movement

Today's activists need to get more involved in protesting the environmental profiteering that is destroying our planet.

by Tim Lydon, Dec 15, 2011
Missing pollution in the crisp, clean air

Telluride, Colo., has much cleaner air than it used to, but some of the old-timers still miss the woodstoves that were banned to make it possible.

by Lise Waring, Dec 07, 2009
Clean air regulations protect park views by targeting coal plants

The Environmental Protection Agency is attempting to reduce haze from air pollution near national parks and wilderness; some coal-fired power plants are cleaning up their act and others will shut down.

by Cally Carswell, Nov 13, 2011
EPA aims to clean up polluted air in Western gas fields

The federal government sets its sights on clearing the air above gas operations

by Cally Carswell, Sep 04, 2011
A mobile health solution

A day with the asthma-fighting crusaders of West Oakland, Calif.

by Stephanie Paige Ogburn, Oct 08, 2010
China v. Utah: Whose air is worse?

It’s hard to tell Beijing from Salt Lake when pollution clouds the air.

by Jonathan Thompson, Feb 18, 2013
Mountains of mercury

The EPA has failed to regulate the mercury discharged from cement plants like the one in Durkee, Ore.

by Jeremy Miller, Jan 19, 2010
State loopholes upset Clean Air Act

The Environmental Integrity Project has issued a new report on power plant emissions called Gaming the System: How the Off-the-Books Industrial Upset Emissions Cheat the Public Out of Clean Air

by Deanna Belch, Nov 22, 2004