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Logging to be allowed on California’s Giant Sequoia
National Monument; rules relaxed on checking contents of containers
shipped to WIPP; environmental and public health groups sue EPA for
approving pesticides that harm wildlife; and Alaska’s
National Petr
by Laura Paskus,
Feb 02, 2004
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Bush administration backs off on removing "isolated
wetlands" from Clean Water Act protection; EPA’s Bruce
Buckheit and J.P. Suarez leave for different reasons; Wal-Mart
cracks down on protest; New Mexico vs. Los Alamos National
Laboratory
by Laura Paskus,
Jan 19, 2004
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California’s newest clean-air law, designed to deal
with pollution from small engines, narrowly survives an attempt to
shoot it down in the U.S. Congress
by Matt Jenkins,
Dec 22, 2003
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EPA boss Mike Leavitt approves Bush’s Clear Skies
Initiative; Bush signs Healthy Forests Restoration Act; Forest
Service lays off workers to privatize jobs; and former government
officials form Environment 2004 to criticize Bush’s
environmental policies
by Laura Paskus,
Dec 22, 2003
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New Mexico joins states suing the Environmental Protection
Agency for weakening the Clean Air Act; new cleanup schedule for
Hanford Nuclear Reservation; court says wastewater from coalbed
methane drilling is industrial waste; and Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt
be
by Laura Paskus,
Nov 10, 2003
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In Idaho, a judge rules that Hecla and Asarco are
responsible for pollution in the Silver Valley, but that the two
companies created only half the mine tailings and therefore need
pay for only half the estimated damage costs
by Puanani Mench,
Jul 16, 2008
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Outgoing California Gov. Gray Davis is working with Oregon
Gov. Ted Kulongoski and Washington Gov. Gary Locke on a regionwide
plan for slowing greenhouse gas emissions
by Puanani Mench,
Oct 27, 2003
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Environmentalists and landowners are worried about the use
of hydraulic fracturing to extract coalbed methane, but the
industry – and the EPA – are carefully protecting the
process and its secrets
by Brian Maffly,
Jul 16, 2008
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Superfund runs out of money; Sen. Pete Dominici reneges on
promise to not drill in ANWR; Kwicksutaineuk Tribe in British
Columbia sues corporate fish farms; whistleblower Kevin Gambrell
fired from Farmington, N.M., Indian Minerals Office; company wants
to
by Laura Paskus,
Oct 13, 2003
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While Congress debates whether Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt
should take over the Environmental Protection Agency, the agency
itself plows ahead in an anti-environmental direction
by Laura Paskus,
Sep 29, 2003
