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BLM experiments with camouflage to hide renewable power structures

The Bureau of Land Management is working with landscape architects and camouflage experts to better disguise renewable energy infrastructure on public lands.

by Kimberly Hirai, Nov 04, 2011
Two weeks in the West

Western governors go green; King Coal gets hammered; Divine Strake strikes out; Colorado cons on the North Forty; Mother Nature’s bodyguards; Western wagering data; and energy use and Bush approval: a case of eerie symmetry.

by Jonathan Thompson, Mar 19, 2007
Reborn

With global warming an increasing threat, some are urging a return to nuclear energy, but the industry’s own checkered past reminds us that a nuclear renaissance will be neither easy nor cheap

by Jonathan Thompson, Sep 04, 2006
If you've got some nuke waste, you can WIPP it

The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in southeastern New Mexico may begin taking hotter waste if the state carries out plans to relax regulations

by Laura Paskus, Apr 03, 2006
Lawmakers chop up renewable-energy fund

Congress slashes the Energy Department’s Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Program in favor of directing money toward energy projects in lawmakers’ home districts

by Laura Paskus, Feb 06, 2006
Tapping into energy's fringe

As energy companies go after "unconventional" natural gas – such as tight-sands gas and coalbed methane –the environmental impacts are becoming increasingly apparent

by Matt Jenkins, Dec 12, 2005
'Sound science' in doubt at Yucca Mountain

Recently released e-mails show that federal employees falsified information about the safety of the proposed nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nev.

by J.M. McCord, Apr 18, 2005
Wildlife refuge may still be radioactive

Scientists may have found a radioactive "hot spot" at the former Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant near Denver, soon to be home to a wildlife refuge

by Lissa James, Feb 07, 2005
Bush's second-term shake-ups

Some of the less-publicized political appointments of George W. Bush’s second term will have huge effects on the West. Meet the people who will direct the EPA and the departments of Energy, Agriculture and the Interior.

by Laura Paskus, Feb 07, 2005
Heard around the West

Top-secret lab has a secret squatter; turtle-helpers in Boulder; the news and the Good News in Colorado Springs; child in pinata; kids write to Santa in Jackson, Wyo.

by Betsy Marston, Jan 24, 2005

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BLM experiments with camouflage to hide renewable power structures

Two weeks in the West

Reborn

If you've got some nuke waste, you can WIPP it

Lawmakers chop up renewable-energy fund

Tapping into energy's fringe

'Sound science' in doubt at Yucca Mountain

Wildlife refuge may still be radioactive

Bush's second-term shake-ups

Heard around the West

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