Energy
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Book Reviews
Urgent news from the front
Environmentalists oppose the Forest Service's proposal to allow new oil and gas leases in Montana's Rocky Mountain Front.
by Katie Fesus, Nov 11, 1996 -
Feature
Will Idaho voters derail nuclear trains?
Idaho's Proposition 3 would void Gov. Phil Batt's deal to bring some nuclear waste into the state and would require that all such agreements in the future have citizen approval.
by Elizabeth Manning, Oct 28, 1996 -
Book Reviews
Not coal alone
"How the West Can Win: A Blueprint for a Clean & Affordable Energy Future" offers environmental alternatives to relying on coal.
by Staff, Sep 30, 1996 -
News
Waste creeps toward Yucca Mountain
A Senate bill that passed in July clears the way for shipping nuclear waste to Nevada's Yucca Mountain as early as 1998.
by Greg Hanscom, Sep 02, 1996 -
News
Radioactive waste is hot issue in Idaho
Nuclear waste critics got a "Stop the Shipments" initiative on the November ballot, to derail Idaho Gov. Batt's agreement to accept more waste - but some warn the situation is too complex for a simple solution.
by Steve Stuebner, Sep 02, 1996 -
News
A tree did it
Two summer power blackouts in the West are caused by wayward trees.
by Betsy Marston, Aug 19, 1996 -
Book Reviews
Sharing a clouded past
The Hanford Health Information Network is gathering archives on people exposed to radiation from southeast Washington's Hanford Nuclear Reservation.
by Staff, Jul 22, 1996 -
News
A Colorado canyon faces an uncertain future
Western Colorado's Demaree Canyon, a wilderness study area, faces possible natural-gas drilling owing to a grandfathered drilling permit.
by Dawn Capewell, May 27, 1996 -
News
Wyoming's Red Desert: 15 million acres of contention
A possible oil and gas boom in Wyoming's Red Desert has environmentalists scrambling to mitigate the impacts without totally alienating local oil and gas workers.
by Katharine Collins, May 27, 1996 -
News
'Boom' potential at Rocky Flats
A dangerous build-up of hydrogen gas at the closed Rocky Flats nuclear facility near Denver, Colo., has activists very worried.
by Bill Taylor, May 13, 1996 -
News
Ellensburg wins back its beauty
A group of concerned Ellensburg, Wash., citizens succeeds in getting 12 tall, unsightly power poles removed from downtown.
by Bill Taylor, May 13, 1996 -
News
80,000 tons of nuclear waste may head for Nevada
The Senate Energy Committee approves the temporary storage of nuclear waste near Nevada's Yucca Mountain.
by Adriel Bettelheim, Apr 01, 1996 -
Sidebar
Wild Wyoming under siege
Environmentalists and sportsmen gather in Rock Springs, Wyo., to discuss the problems caused by increasing oil and gas development.
by Michelle McClellan, Apr 01, 1996 -
News
Nuclear waste deal challenged
Idaho State Sen. Clint Stennett accuses Gov. Phil Batt of abusing executive power by signing a nuclear waste deal with the federal government.
by Anders Halverson, Mar 04, 1996 -
Book Reviews
American Ground Zero
Photographer Carole Gallagher profiles the West's downwinders and atomic veterans in a show and lecture in Denver, Colorado.
by Staff, Feb 05, 1996






