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  • Writers on the Range

    The salting of the West – who cares?

    Stephen Voynick says tons of salt are dumped on Western highways and no one seems to care

  • Writers on the Range

    The biggest environmental issue is staring us in the face

    Tom Bell says we’d better connect the dots that reveal global warming.

  • News

    West Coast states tackle global warming

    Outgoing California Gov. Gray Davis is working with Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski and Washington Gov. Gary Locke on a regionwide plan for slowing greenhouse gas emissions

  • Writers on the Range

    Leaving Las Vegas

    Sarah Flick writes about a snowy spring in the Nevada desert and other wonders of aridity before leaving Las Vegas

  • News

    Who’s at the helm?

    While Congress debates whether Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt should take over the Environmental Protection Agency, the agency itself plows ahead in an anti-environmental direction

  • Essays

    The EPA needs an urban pit bull

    Putting Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt in charge of the Environmental Protection Agency is like using a goldfish to guard a junkyard

  • News

    Mr. Middle Ground gets called to Washington

    Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt, R, is President Bush’s pick to run the Environmental Protection Agency, and some environmentalists fear he will prove little more than a yes-man

  • Essays

    Of avalanche forecasting and snow haiku

    A day spent on skis with avalanche forecaster Jerry Roberts is filled with stellar crystals, snow haiku and unexpected beauty

  • Writers on the Range

    We need a shoe to drop on climate change

    We need a shoe to drop on climate change

  • Writers on the Range

    For wet or for dry

    A one-time New Yorker wonders if he will still love his Western home, if the drought continues and the landscape he loves keeps changing before his eyes.

  • News

    Hispanic community takes on polluters

    The working-class community of Barrio Logan, on the edge of downtown San Diego, successfully tackles a chrome-plating business that produces dangerous chemicals

  • Writers on the Range

    Like Butte, Montana, an old dog hangs on

    A mysterious, mostly wild dog, fed by local miners, has somehow survived for 16 years in the desolate moonscape of a Superfund site -- the Berkeley Pit in Butte, Mont.

  • Related Stories

    Brownfields program makes cleanup profitable

    The "Brownfields" program, an offshoot of Superfund, is designed to redevelop contaminated sites into real estate, but critics say it is not always up to the challenge.

  • Related Stories

    Superfund: On the Hill… on the ground

    Timelines trace the birth, life and decline of the Superfund law, both on Capitol Hill and on the ground in the West.

  • News

    Administration, industry stamp out clean air regs

    The auto industry, backed by the Bush administration, is trying to halt California’s progressive auto-emissions regulations.

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