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    Drought cuts to the bone on Southwest range

    The Southwest's severe drought takes a toll on the ranchers of New Mexico's Gila National Forest.

  • News

    Pact promises cleaner canyon air

    The Grand Canyon Visibility Transport Commission issues an ambitious proposed air-quality cleanup blueprint for the Colorado Plateau.

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    Clean air victory in Colorado

    The polluting, coal-fired Hayden Power Plant in northeastern Colorado agrees to reform, to activists' delight.

  • News

    A wet winter misses the Southwest

    Although much of the West had an unusually wet winter, fires are already starting to rage across the dry Southwestern states.

  • News

    Farmers feel burned by clean air regs

    Eastern Washington grass farms are upset by an announced phaseout of the practice of late-summer field burning, after clean air activists complain.

  • News

    Here's a chance to speak up for clean air

    The Grand Canyon Visibility Transport Commission gives people a chance to comment on the need to clean up the air in Grand Canyon and the Colorado Plateau.

  • Book Reviews

    Clearing the air on the Colorado Plateau

    The Grand Canyon Visibility Transport Commission gets ready to send the EPA its recommendation for restoring clean air to the Colorado Plateau.

  • News

    Flooding: Whose fault?

    Environmentalists say manmade causes such as logging and road-building contributed to flooding and landslides in the Northwest during a wet winter.

  • News

    Utility found guilty of polluting a wilderness

    The coal-fired Hayden Power Plant is found guilty of polluting the air of the nearby Mount Zirkel Wilderness area.

  • Book Reviews

    Smog talk

    The Grand Canyon Visibility Transport Commission seeks public comment on five proposals to reduce smog on the Colorado Plateau.

  • News

    Housewife from Hell bird-dogs a cleanup

    Milltown, Mont., resident Tina Reinicke-Schmaus finds her life transformed by her involvement in a Superfund project to clean up mining waste in her town.

  • News

    When regulations are lax, s--- happens

    Malfunctioning septic systems in eastern Idaho are contaminating ground water.

  • News

    Hazardous burning plan snuffed

    The Ash Grove Cement Company changes its mind about burning hazardous waste after citizens object.

  • News

    As landfills tighten up, midnight dumpers spread out

    Illegal hazardous waste dumps are increasingly discovered in national forests.

  • News

    L-P's problems mount

    The EPA indicts Louisiana-Pacific for its Olathe, Colo., waferboard plant's pollution.

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