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  • The fight over a much-needed pesticide: methyl iodide

    The fight over a much-needed pesticide: methyl iodide

    California places tough restrictions on the pesticide methyl iodide, but opponents believe that's not enough to protect workers and the environment.

    by Nathan Rice, Jul 24, 2011

  • Communities search for a safer way to kill mosquitoes

    In Colorado and elsewhere in the West, the fear of West Nile Virus brings the controversy about spraying pesticides to a boil

    by Gail Binkly, Sep 13, 2004

  • Bees don't grow on trees

    Honeybees are in trouble, and so are the farmers who depend on them for pollination, especially in California’s almond orchards

    by J.M. McCord, Mar 07, 2005

  • A chemical cocktail pollutes Western water

    A recent study from the U.S. Geological Survey finds traces of pharmaceuticals, pesticides and personal care products in Colorado’s streams and groundwater

    by Michelle Nijhuis, Apr 18, 2005

  • Skiing, or wheeling and dealing?

    Ski resorts become a tool for real estate speculation and development across the West.

    by Mark Matthews, Apr 18, 2005

  • Follow-up

    Gale Norton blasts environmentalists; California farmworkers sprayed with pesticides; ranchers have to keep paying beef checkoffs

    by Laura Paskus, Jun 13, 2005

  • With liberty, justice, and locally produced food for all

    In Fields That Dream: A Journey to the Roots of Our Food, Jenny Kurzweil illustrates how agricultural injustices can be combated by purchasing food from socially conscious local producers

    by Annie Dawid, Mar 20, 2006

  • Why would a federal agency trash its libraries?

    The Environmental Protection Agency’s quiet efforts to dismantle its own technical libraries are likely to hamstring scientific research – and freedom of thought – across the nation, Jeff Ruch warns.

    by Jeff Ruch, Apr 09, 2007

  • Follow-up

    Logging to be allowed on California’s Giant Sequoia National Monument; rules relaxed on checking contents of containers shipped to WIPP; environmental and public health groups sue EPA for approving pesticides that harm wildlife; and Alaska’s National Petr

    by Laura Paskus, Feb 02, 2004

  • Dear friends

    Wallace Stegner Center celebrates 40th birthday of Wilderness Act; Casper Star-Tribune’s Charles Levendosky dies; visitors Stanley Dodson, Dorothy Kehmeier, Jim Low; correction on Pahreah townsite photos

    by Matt Jenkins, Mar 29, 2004
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