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The Yellowstone River Compact may not protect Montanans who rely on the Tongue River’s water.
by Sierra Crane-Murdoch,
May 19, 2011
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Long-banned pesticides linger in the soils of neighborhoods built on former agricultural land in central Washington.
by Rebecca Clarren,
Dec 13, 2010
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Soil samples from the yards of two Yakima families showed intriguing but not always comforting results.
by Rebecca Clarren,
Dec 06, 2010
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When pesticide chemicals were found underneath the houses of Barber Orchard, N.C., it aroused fears nationwide about the risks of building on former agricultural land.
by Sarah Gilman,
Dec 06, 2010
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In dry eastern Washington, small farmers resent a corporate feedlot’s access to scarce water supplies.
by Cally Carswell,
Oct 19, 2009
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Bottled water is a silly idea anyway, but Nestle’s plans to bottle spring water from the high desert of Chaffee County, Colo., are beyond absurd.
by Susan J. Tweit,
Apr 02, 2009
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Some activists fear that toxic chemicals in a New Mexico
landfill, left over from Cold War-era nuclear weapons research, may
be creeping toward the Albuquerque Aquifer.
by Stephanie Hiller,
Dec 10, 2007
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Pete Letheby says the West is headed for a hotter and
drier future, and this time, as farmer Gerald Spangler warns him,
we’re running out of groundwater.
by Pete Letheby,
Nov 19, 2007
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A new desalination technology uses the sun and your air
conditioner to create fresh water.
by Morgan Heim,
Jul 19, 2007
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An environmentalist who owns royalty interest in New
Mexico oil and gas wells heads down to the San Juan Basin to talk
to rancher Tweeti Blancett, driller Tom Dugan and others about the
moral complexities inherent in Americans’ energy
use
by Hannah Nordhaus,
Dec 25, 2006
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