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On the messy bureaucratic soap opera As Interior Turns,
the cast keeps changing, and getting indicted; Good Samaritans need
to able to clean up old mines without getting burned; foreign
countries drive Western mining boom; and data about
mining
by Jonathan Thompson,
Jun 25, 2007
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Robert Redford and Auden Schendler find it ironic that,
under its current leadership, the Environmental Protection Agency
could never qualify for one of the Climate Protection Awards it
gives out.
by Robert Redford and Auden Schendler,
Jul 16, 2008
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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,
Jul 16, 2008
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In this issue, Ray Ring offers a top 10 list on the
midterm elections and reminds Westerners that the newly empowered
Democrats in Congress are still not the sole arbiters of
environmental policy
by John Mecklin,
Nov 27, 2006
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EPA abandons attempt to regulate hydraulic fracturing; BLM
briefly cuts forestry school funding and Republican Rep. Greg
Walden grills logging critic Dan Donato; California regulator tries
to stop ecological crash in San Francisco Bay-Delta
by Matt Jenkins,
Mar 20, 2006
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Petroglyph boulders moved for controversial Albuquerque
highway; Hilmar Cheese can drill "test well" for its wastewater;
Richard Pombo’s plan to fast-track oil shale stymied;
wilderness vs. helicopter skiing in Wyoming
by Matt Jenkins,
Jan 23, 2006
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"Speed dating" brings Utah legislators and lobbyists
together; EPA cleaning up fewer sites; Fallon, Nev., residents
breathing dangerous tungsten and cobalt; poaching at Wyoming drill
rigs
by Jodi Peterson,
Dec 12, 2005
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Ag Secretary Mike Johanns says his agency may relax ban on
slaughtering "downer" cows for human consumption; California sets
official, but nonbinding, goals for perchlorate in drinking water;
San Juan Generating Station to cut mercury and other
emissions
by Laura Paskus,
May 16, 2005
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Ski resorts become a tool for real estate speculation and
development across the West.
by Mark Matthews,
Apr 18, 2005
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A recent study from the U.S. Geological Survey finds
traces of pharmaceuticals, pesticides and personal care products in
Colorado’s streams and groundwater
by Michelle Nijhuis,
Jul 16, 2008
