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  • Essays

    When it's 25 below and dropping

    Life at 25 below in towns like Livingston, Mont., is made bearable by things like poker, polar fleece and Portabello mushrooms.

  • News

    Utah takes waste that Arizona rejected

    An unusual collaboration between two working-class, largely minority communities means that waste originally meant to be shipped from Richmond, Calif., to a landfill in Mobile, Ariz., will be sent to a less controversial site in Utah.

  • News

    The West awakes to "weird' weather

    Strange winter weather brings extremes to the West, from 70-degree days in Colorado to floods in Nevada and snows and ice in the Northwest.

  • News

    County trashes waste plan

    Residents of Elmore County, Idaho, are upset by plans to put the state's largest landfill in their backyard.

  • News

    Clean air for a price

    Washington's Centralia Coal Plant want $80 million in tax breaks to stop polluting the air over Mount Rainier.

  • Book Reviews

    Recycling gets rapped

    The Environmental Defense Fund pamphlet, "Anti-Recycling Myths," responds to a New York Times article denouncing recycling.

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    For more information

    How to obtain information on the Toxics Release Inventory.

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    The Toxic West

    Charts for each state in the West depict top five chemicals released in air, water and land, and top 10 facilities.

  • Feature

    An off-the-books polluter

    A loophole in the Toxics Release Inventory keeps mining pollution, except for that caused by smelters, off its lists.

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    Top 20 polluters

    Top 20 companies are ranked according to how many pounds of pollution they release into the air, water and land.

  • Feature

    The filthy West: Toxics pour into our air, water, land

    The EPA's Toxic Releases Inventory report documents the annual industrial pollution of land, air and water in the U.S., with six of the top 10 polluters located in the West.

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    Recyclers challenge Big Steel

    "Minimills" that recycle steel help the environment - and make money.

  • Feature

    Junkyard Rancher: Automotive wrangler scraps for a living

    At his Carbondale, Colo., "Cadillac ranch," Alan Morris recycles automotive junk.

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    Droughts come, droughts go

    Rancher Quentin Hulse, in his own words, remembers previous Southwestern droughts.

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    The art of control

    Rancher Jim Winder, in his own words, about the art of ranching during severe drought.

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