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A disaster puts spotlight on pipeline safety
The explosion of a gasoline pipeline in Bellingham, Wash., which killed three people, leads the Olympic Pipe Line Co. to withdraw its plan to build the Cross Cascade Pipeline.
by Dustin Solberg, Aug 02, 1999 -
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Court puts gas in private hands
The Supreme Court rules that coalbed methane gas in southwestern Colorado does not belong to the Southern Utes, even though the tribe owns the coal from which the methane is extracted.
by Dustin Solberg, Jul 05, 1999 -
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Big Oil down the tubes?
Environmentalists disagree over whether an oil consortium's plan to build a pipeline across the Cascades is a good thing that will reduce oil spills in the ocean, or a danger to the mountains of Washington.
by Rebecca Clarren, Jun 21, 1999 -
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Greens fight lonely battle near Yellowstone
Dubois, Wyo., environmentalists are frustrated by the lack of local interest in and opposition to the Forest Service's plans to open almost 1 million acres of the Shoshone National Forest to oil and gas exploration.
by Gabriel Ross, May 10, 1999 -
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Nuclear waste goes camping
Rocky Flats is running out of room to store the nuclear debris that is being cleaned up on the former bomb-making factory outside Denver.
by Juniper Davis, Apr 26, 1999 -
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Nuclear waste dump opens
The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant outside Carlsbad, N.M., receives its first truckload of nuclear debris as anti-nuclear activists continue to protest.
by Tony Davis, Apr 12, 1999 -
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Oil wells in my backyard?
In western Colorado's La Plata County, locals fight for a moratorium on gas development until the state studies the impacts of the methane drilling that many say is making their lives miserable.
by Rebecca Clarren, Mar 15, 1999 -
Book Reviews
Where will the waste wind up?
Project opponents, including the state of Nevada, object to the Department of Energy's assessment that high-level nuclear waste can soon be stored at Yucca Mountain.
by Juniper Davis, Feb 01, 1999 -
Book Reviews
Trading up to salmon power
The Emerald People's Utility District near Eugene, Ore., plans to provide "green power" to its customers, encouraging energy production that doesn't harm air quality or salmon.
by Stanley Yung, Nov 09, 1998 -
Book Reviews
Solar power is booming
The Worldwatch Institute's report shows that solar power's growth rate is up.
by Staff, Oct 12, 1998 -
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The Rocky Mountain Front faces new oil-and-gas threat
Blackfeet Indians argue over the planned oil and gas exploration on Chief Mountain, on the border between the reservation and Glacier National Park.
by Hal Herring, Oct 12, 1998 -
Book Reviews
Tour the underground
North Dakota's "Energy Trail" gives tourists a chance to visit coal mines and power plants.
by Stanley Yung, Sep 28, 1998 -
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Between an oil lease and a hard place
The BLM is in the middle of a mess it created when it sold oil and gas rights in New Mexico's Bisti/De-Na-Zin wilderness before it became a wilderness.
by Taffeta Elliott, Sep 14, 1998 -
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There goes the neighborhood
Residents of a Steamboat Springs, Colo., neighborhood that is powered by solar and propane energy, are upset with CEO Jim Mann's plans to power the 21,000 sq.-ft. house he wants to build there with electricity from the grid.
by Michelle Nijhuis, Aug 31, 1998 -
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Fast flux on a fast track
Even as Washington state officials complain about the slow pace of cleanup at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, the Department of Energy wants to restart nuclear weapons production there.
by Chris Carrel, Aug 03, 1998
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