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Champions go both ways

The Obama administration appoints environmentalists to some important positions in the Interior Department and other agencies. Also: The West faces a growing shortage of food-supply animal veterinarians.

by Ray Ring, Apr 20, 2009
Nonprofitable times

Many conservation groups are feeling the pinch.

by Sarah Gilman, Dec 05, 2008
Two weeks in the West

Bush administration finally acknowledges reality of global warming; Montana politics; Yucca Mountain 8,000-page application turned in; J.R. Simplot dies; Telluride wins fight over open space.

by Ray Ring, Jun 23, 2008
Bush brings more green into the green movement

The Bush administration has been good for environmental groups, at least when it comes to money and membership numbers.

by Ray Ring, Mar 17, 2008
Don’t starve the Forest Service

Former Montana Congressman Pat Williams warns that the Bush administration is playing with fire – literally – in cutting the Forest Service’s budget.

by Pat Williams, Mar 03, 2008
The hidden costs of our coal habit

In Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America’s Energy Future, Jeff Goodell reveals how the sausage is made when it comes to the primary source of America’s electricity.

by Allen Best, Apr 16, 2007
An endangered Endangered Species Act?

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service tries an end-run around the Endangered Species Act; a leaked draft would weaken the bedrock law by changing the regulations that implement it rather than the law itself.

by Jodi Peterson, Apr 16, 2007
Why would a federal agency trash its libraries?

The Environmental Protection Agency’s quiet efforts to dismantle its own technical libraries are likely to hamstring scientific research – and freedom of thought – across the nation, Jeff Ruch warns.

by Jeff Ruch, Apr 09, 2007
Two weeks in the West

Forest Service faces budget cuts; Rural Schools Act dies; local governments may have to pay more firefighting costs; user fees upheld; grazing fees go down; Klamath dams may fall; livestock killed by wolves, and wolves killed; and UFOs in the West.

by Jonathan Thompson, Feb 19, 2007
Clinton-era roadless rule is back... for now

A federal judge has reinstated President Clinton’s roadless rule protecting forests in the Lower 48 states, but the decision seems to have only confused the issue of forest management and is likely to end up back in court

by Evan Tea, Oct 16, 2006

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Results for keyword: Bush administration

Champions go both ways

Nonprofitable times

Two weeks in the West

Bush brings more green into the green movement

Don’t starve the Forest Service

The hidden costs of our coal habit

An endangered Endangered Species Act?

Why would a federal agency trash its libraries?

Two weeks in the West

Clinton-era roadless rule is back... for now

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