Energy
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News
Forest Service acts to preserve 'the Front'
Lewis and Clark National Forest Supervisor Gloria Flora decides against allowing oil and gas leasing in Montana's Rocky Mountain Front.
by Mark Matthews, Oct 13, 1997 -
Book Reviews
Just charge it
The Tucson Electric Power Company opens eight free charge-up stations in Tucson for electric cars.
by Jason Lenderman, Sep 29, 1997 -
News
A cleanup project can't get going
What was supposed to be a pioneering clean-up by a private company of radioactive waste at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory bogs down amid cost overruns and failed deadlines.
by Stephen Stuebner, Sep 29, 1997 -
News
The drilling proceeds
The BLM gives Conoco Inc. permission to drill for oil in southern Utah's new Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
by Greg Hanscom, Sep 29, 1997 -
News
A nuclear dump proposal rouses Utah
A private company's plan to store nuclear waste on western Utah's Goshute Indian Reservation would bring money to the tribe, but cause environmental harm, Utah critics say.
by Barry Scholl, Sep 01, 1997 -
Feature
Radioactive waste from Hanford is seeping toward the Columbia
Two whistleblowers - safety auditor Casey Ruud and geophysicist John Brodeur - find that radioactive waste from some of the biggest, leaking storage tanks has already reached groundwater and is heading toward the Columbia River.
by Karen Dorn Steele, Sep 01, 1997 -
News
Bombs tested in Nevada
The Department of Energy begins a series of underground nuclear detonations at the Nevada Test Site, and environmentalists and arms control groups protest.
by Emily Miller, Aug 18, 1997 -
News
A cover-up over fallout?
The National Cancer Institute has been sitting on a study that says up to 72,000 people - many living far from nuclear bomb test sites in Nevada - may have been exposed to dangerous amounts of radiation in the 1950s.
by Karen Dorn Steele, Aug 18, 1997 -
News
Co-existence criticized
Five environmental groups say that oil and gas drilling on the Shoshone National Forest threatens grizzly bear habitat.
by Emily Miller, Aug 04, 1997 -
News
Hanford workers point the finger
Four workers at the Hanford, Wash., plutonium reclamation facility say they are still suffering health problems after a May 14 accident at the facility.
by Emily Miller, Jul 07, 1997 -
News
Pressure builds for Yucca Mountain
U.S. Senate wants to begin using Nevada's Yucca Mountain to temporarily store high-level nuclear waste.
by Jamie Murray, May 26, 1997 -
News
Some fear the Colorado is getting nuked
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's decision to let Atlas Minerals buy 10 million tons of uranium tailings near Moab, Utah, has environmentalists worried about possible contamination of the nearby Colorado River.
by Heather Abel, May 26, 1997 -
News
Marathon Oil sues to get into roadless area
Marathon Oil Company is suing to get into lands pulled from a routine oil and gas lease sale because they are in a roadless, possible wilderness area.
by Sarah Dry, May 12, 1997 -
News
Is Hanford back in the bomb business?
The Department of Energy is considering using Hanford's research nuclear reactor to produce tritium for nuclear weapons.
by Elizabeth Manning, Mar 03, 1997 -
News
Nuclear dump could waste the Colorado, foes say
Activists are protesting the state of California's plans to build a low-level nuclear dump in the desert's Ward Valley.
by James Bruggers, Mar 03, 1997






