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  • We need to store fat from the gas-feeding frenzy

    The writer urges Western states to seize the moment and make the most of the gas bonanza that is enriching private companies

    by Paul Larmer, Dec 05, 2005

  • Pombo’s plan to privatize the West must be stopped

    The writer asks all those who love the West’s open spaces to oppose a bill privatizing federal mining claims

    by Pepper Trail, Dec 05, 2005

  • Public-lands agenda turns more radical, urgent

    Rep. Richard Pombo has inserted a provision in the House budget bill that will reform United States mining law to allow for the selling off of public lands

    by Michelle Burkhart, Nov 28, 2005

  • The Great Salt Lake's dirty little secret

    Utah’s Great Salt Lake is loaded with mercury, and scientists are trying to figure out whether Nevada’s gold mines are part of the problem

    by Patrick Farrell, Aug 08, 2005

  • Tales of Colorado's high-elevation tailings

    In Leadville: The Struggle to Revive an American Town, Gillian Klucas describes the history and the current environmental and economic struggles of the old mining town of Leadville, Colo.

    by Jessica Clement, Jul 25, 2005

  • Nevada BLM cleans out cleanup project manager

    Earle Dixon says the Bureau of Land Management fired him because he tried to enforce environmental and public safety laws in the course of the Yerington Mine cleanup in Nevada

    by Laura Paskus, Dec 20, 2004

  • Digging through the dust of Libby

    Journalist Andrea Peacock chronicles the tragic story of Libby, Mont., and its betrayal by the W.R. Grace Corp. in Libby, Montana: Asbestos and the Deadly Silence of an American Corporation

    by Michelle Nijhuis, Sep 01, 2003

  • There’s a way to end the RS 2477 road mess

    Colorado Democratic Rep. Mark Udall urges support for his bill that would settle the RS 2477 road issue once and for all.

    by Mark Udall, Jun 09, 2003

  • Like Butte, a lonely dog hangs on

    A mysterious, mangy, half-wild dog known locally as "The Auditor" has made the moonscape of the Butte’s Berkeley Pit his home for 16 years, hanging on to life as stubbornly as the town of Butte itself.

    by Matt Vincent, Dec 09, 2002

  • Dear Friends

    The threat of a coalbed methane boom in Delta county, Colo., High Country News' backyard, has staff scrambling as activists to publish an informative booklet that contains articles on the controversial subject.

    by Ed Marston, May 27, 2002
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