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  • Uber Recycling

    Garry and Diann Fulks have been recycling large metal objects for 35 years at their scrap yard in Montrose, Colo.

    by Jonathan Thompson, Jun 09, 2008

  • Use it up, recycle, and never buy anything new – whew!

    Proud packrat and scavenger Jeannie Pomeroy urges Westerners to “think outside the Dumpster” when they’re getting rid of clutter.

    by Jeannie Pomeroy, Mar 03, 2008

  • The sacred and the toxic

    Just over the Arizona-Sonora border, Tohono O’odham traditionalists have joined environmental groups in fighting a proposed Mexican hazardous waste landfill.

    by John Dougherty, Apr 16, 2007

  • Wastin' away in New Mexico

    Louisiana Energy Services, a European-based company, breaks ground on the first uranium enrichment facility in the U.S. near Eunice, N.M.

    by Laura Paskus, Oct 16, 2006

  • Take that nuke waste and shove it

    Skull Valley Goshute Tribe’s nuclear-waste storage plan rejected

    by Staff, Oct 02, 2006

  • Waste disposal the industry's Achilles' heel

    The French have dealt with their radioactive waste for decades by reprocessing it, but the process is more problematic than it sounds, particularly in an age of terrorism

    by Judith Lewis, Sep 04, 2006

  • Saints speak out against nuclear waste

    The Mormon Church has issued a statement opposing a planned nuclear waste storage site not far from Salt Lake City, Utah, on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation

    by Allison Gerfin, Jun 26, 2006

  • If you've got some nuke waste, you can WIPP it

    The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in southeastern New Mexico may begin taking hotter waste if the state carries out plans to relax regulations

    by Laura Paskus, Apr 03, 2006

  • Wilderness: The new anti-nuclear weapon

    The designation of a new wilderness area in Utah – the Cedar Mountain Wilderness -- may make it harder for nuclear power plant operators to ship radioactive waste to the Skull Valley Goshute Indian Reservation

    by Matt Jenkins, Mar 06, 2006

  • In our rush to protect America, we secretly put Americans at risk

    The writer supports the claims of "downwinders" near the Hanford Nuclear Reservation who are finally getting their day in court

    by Rebecca Clarren, May 16, 2005
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