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  • Seattle’s mayor leads the nation on global warming

    The writer says Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels is modest but also fierce when it comes to combating global warming

    by J.M. McCord, Jul 18, 2005

  • This mayor sees a different shade of green

    Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels is striving to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and make his city environmentally sustainable

    by J.M. McCord, Jun 27, 2005

  • Uranium miners go back underground

    With prices rising and government support, uranium mining is booming in western Colorado

    by J.M. McCord, Jun 13, 2005

  • Learning from Moab's example

    In the North Fruita Desert of western Colorado, the BLM has come up with a plan to enable motorized and non-motorized recreationists to share the outdoors

    by Jodi Peterson and J.M. McCord, May 30, 2005

  • Bears and bull trout may block mine

    A judge rules that constructing the Rock Creek Mine would jeopardize threatened populations of grizzly and bull trout in the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness of Montana

    by J.M. McCord, May 02, 2005

  • On the Colorado, a grand experiment meets Mother Nature

    A recent experimental flood from Glen Canyon Dam may have killed endangered native humpback chub in the Colorado River through Grand Canyon

    by J.M. McCord, May 02, 2005

  • 'Sound science' in doubt at Yucca Mountain

    Recently released e-mails show that federal employees falsified information about the safety of the proposed nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nev.

    by J.M. McCord, Apr 18, 2005

  • D-Day for dam decommissioning approaches

    Preparations have begun to bring down a century-old dam on Fossil Creek in central Arizona

    by J.M. McCord, Apr 18, 2005

  • Who owns Klamath water — farmers or the public?

    A judge rules that Pacific Coast fishermen can intervene as a third party in a lawsuit between Klamath River Basin farmers and the federal government

    by J.M. McCord, Apr 04, 2005

  • 'Safe dose' of rocket fuel now larger

    Following a controversial study, the Environmental Protection Agency decides to raise the drinking water standards for perchlorate to a dosage environmentalists say is dangerously high

    by J.M. McCord, Mar 21, 2005

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