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The American West at Risk presents a familiar litany of Western land-use problems, but also offers suggestions for how to solve them.
by Chuck Hulin,
Feb 17, 2009
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A writer tries to dig up the buried history of Colorado’s Rocky Flats weapons plant, now home to a controversial wildlife refuge.
by Hannah Nordhaus,
Feb 17, 2009
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Jon Christensen accompanies scientists trying to measure the opacity and “blueness” of Lake Tahoe.
by Jon Christensen ,
Jul 29, 2008
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Asarco wants to reopen a copper smelter in downtown El
Paso, but Robert Rowley remembers the old smelter’s pollution
and all the sickness it caused.
by Robert Rowley,
Jul 16, 2008
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A bill introduced by Colorado Rep. John Salazar could make
it easier for environmental groups and others to clean up pollution
at thousands of orphaned hardrock mines
by Sarah Gilman,
May 29, 2006
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Grand Junction and Palisade, Colo., try unsuccessfully to
bid on oil and gas leases to protect their water supply from
contamination by drilling
by Sarah Gilman,
Apr 17, 2006
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The federal Energy Department and the state of Wyoming
have challenged Montana’s plan to establish pollution
controls for coalbed methane wells
by Sarah Gilman,
Jul 16, 2008
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Perchlorate, a toxic chemical used in rocket fuel, has
been found in drinking water wells, but that won’t stop the
development of West Creek, a planned community northeast of Los
Angeles
by Patrick Farrell,
Jul 16, 2008
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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,
Jul 16, 2008
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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
