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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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California farmers have long been exempt from the Clean
Air Act, but that may change, as legislators and activists tackle
the health and environmental problems linked to agriculture in the
San Joaquin Valley
by Cosmo Garvin,
Oct 13, 2003
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Local ranchers and farmers in southern Colorado’s
San Luis Valley are working to restore the Alamosa River, site of
the infamous Summitville mine cyanide spill
by Hal Clifford,
Sep 29, 2003
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A pile of toxic waste rock is moving dangerously close to
Questa, N.M., while the mining company, Molycorp, and the state
slowly work out a reclamation plan
by Joshua Zaffos,
Sep 15, 2003
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Ammonium perchlorate, a toxic ingredient in rocket fuel,
has appeared in Nevada’s Lake Mead as well as in other
Western water sources used for drinking and irrigation
by Lin Alder,
Apr 28, 2003
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The planned Superfund cleanup of Idaho's Lake Coeur
d'Alene is taken from the EPA and given to a controversial new
local commission, although the Coeur d'Alene Tribe says it will
force the EPA to take back the project, if necessary.
by Kevin Taylor,
Jul 16, 2008
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The Southern Ute Tribe is upset with Colorado state
officials for issuing a permit to allow two coalbed-methane wells
to spill polluted water into the Florida River, upstream from the
tribe.
by Robyn Morrison,
May 13, 2002
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Environmentalists and SLC Mayor Rocky Anderson denounce
the Legacy Highway, a disputed 14-mile road that would connect Salt
Lake City to Farmington, arguing that it would destroy wetlands,
encourage sprawl, and degrade the Front's already murky
air.
by Tim Westby,
Apr 29, 2002
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State and federal officials fight over how to clean up
Idaho's Silver Valley, where mining pollution has spread past the
Bunker Hill Superfund Site into Lake Coeur d'Alene and a huge swath
of northern Idaho.
by Mark Matthews,
Mar 04, 2002
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More than 7,000 gallons of diesel fuel accidentally dumped
in a water-quality monitoring well at Copper Mountain ski resort,
Colo., have yet to be found.
by Catherine Lutz,
Jul 02, 2001
