http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 14. http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.19/costly-new-geothermal-technology-could-edge-out-fossil-fuels A new form of geothermal energy has the potential to revolutionize U.S. power production, if costs come down. No publisher Nate Seltenrich Department of Energy renewable energy Hot Times geothermal Calpine the Geysers 2012-11-21T16:13:51Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.18/blm-experiments-with-camouflage-to-hide-renewable-power-structures The Bureau of Land Management is working with landscape architects and camouflage experts to better disguise renewable energy infrastructure on public lands. No publisher Kimberly Hirai Terry Del Bene Department of Energy Sherry Roche Tom Lahti oil and gas drilling camouflage design Otak Western public lands Bureau of Land Management renewable energy infrastructure visual resource experts Kate Schwarzler 2011-11-04T14:58:05Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/315/16086 Congress slashes the Energy Department’s Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Program in favor of directing money toward energy projects in lawmakers’ home districts No publisher Laura Paskus Renewable Department of Energy Congress renewable energy Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Program budgets National Renewable Energy Laboratory Harry Reid solar power wind power hydrogen fuel cells biofuels George Douglas 2010-02-05T08:56:49Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/312/15977 As energy companies go after "unconventional" natural gas – such as tight-sands gas and coalbed methane –the environmental impacts are becoming increasingly apparent No publisher Matt Jenkins Coalbed Methane Upper Green River Basin Wyoming tight-sands gas Questar Corporation Pinedale deep well Department of Energy Piceance Basin Colorado Uinta Basin Utah San Juan Basin New Mexico unconventional gas coalbed methane Paul Matheny Jonah tight-gas f 2010-02-05T08:56:14Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/296/15434 Recently released e-mails show that federal employees falsified information about the safety of the proposed nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nev. No publisher J.M. McCord Waste Yucca Mountain Nevada Department of Energy nuclear safety nuclear waste spent fuel rods George W. Bush hazardous waste nuclear repository scientists federal employees Kenny Guinn Jon Porter Ted Garrish criminal investigation e-mail U.S. Ge 2010-02-05T09:24:28Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/291/15263 Scientists may have found a radioactive "hot spot" at the former Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant near Denver, soon to be home to a wildlife refuge No publisher Lissa James Waste Rocky Flats wildlife refuge radioactivity nuclear waste plutonium triggers Department of Energy Kaiser-Hill EPA Joseph Legare LeRoy Moore Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center 2010-02-05T09:23:11Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/291/15258 Some of the less-publicized political appointments of George W. Bush’s second term will have huge effects on the West. Meet the people who will direct the EPA and the departments of Energy, Agriculture and the Interior. No publisher Laura Paskus Appointed Officials George W. Bush Mike Leavitt EPA American Association for the Advancement of Science Eric Schaeffer Environmental Integrity Project Superfund pollution Clean Air Act Clean Water Act Department of Energy Spencer Abraham Stephen Johnson Kei Koiz 2010-02-05T09:23:07Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/290/15248 Top-secret lab has a secret squatter; turtle-helpers in Boulder; the news and the Good News in Colorado Springs; child in pinata; kids write to Santa in Jackson, Wyo. No publisher Betsy Marston Humor Western odd news Los Alamos National Laboratory eccentrics Roy Michael Moore Department of Energy turtles volunteerism Colorado Springs Gazette Colorado Springs Independent Rich Tosches New Testament proselytizing Bibles newspapers 2010-02-05T09:23:04Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/267/14524 Logging to be allowed on California’s Giant Sequoia National Monument; rules relaxed on checking contents of containers shipped to WIPP; environmental and public health groups sue EPA for approving pesticides that harm wildlife; and Alaska’s National Petr No publisher Laura Paskus Giant Sequoia National Monument logging WIPP radioactive waste DOE Department of Energy EPA Environmental Protection Agency Bush administration Bush environmental policy pesticides azinphos-methyl phosmet National Petroleum Reserve Alaska 2010-02-05T09:56:03Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/257/14204 The Department of Energy says any new nuclear bomb factory will be safer than Rocky Flats, but critics have their doubts No publisher Michelle Nijhuis Weapons And Laboratories Rocky Flats nuclear weapons bomb factories nuclear bomb triggers modern pit facility Department of Energy nuclear safety Len Ackland 2010-02-05T10:13:28Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/275/14772 The Bush administration is ignoring the warnings of the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board created by Congress, and is racing ahead with its plans to store nuclear waste at Nevada’s Yucca Mountain No publisher Paul P. Craig nuclear waste storage Waste Board nuclear Department of Energy Craig Nuclear Regulatory Commission Bush administration Paul P. safety Nuclear Waste Technical Review science Yucca Mountain Nevada waste containment 2010-02-05T09:57:27Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/329/16509 With global warming an increasing threat, some are urging a return to nuclear energy, but the industry’s own checkered past reminds us that a nuclear renaissance will be neither easy nor cheap No publisher Jonathan Thompson coal power radioactive waste Greenpeace Uranium Uravan Three Mile Island fossil fuels Clean and Mining Safe Energy Coalition uranium Nuclear energy Science Chernobyl Ukraine mining Climate Change Patrick Moore greenhouse gases global warming Energy Policy Department of Energy Energy Nuclear Energy George W. Bush 2011-12-09T18:04:52Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/319/16208 The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in southeastern New Mexico may begin taking hotter waste if the state carries out plans to relax regulations No publisher Laura Paskus Waste WIPP nuclear waste radioactive waste Hanford Nuclear Reservation Idaho National Laboratory Department of Energy Washington TRU Solutions New Mexico Environment Department Adam Rankin Don Hancock Southwest Research and Information Center nuclear 2011-10-27T21:29:27Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/342/16894 Western governors go green; King Coal gets hammered; Divine Strake strikes out; Colorado cons on the North Forty; Mother Nature’s bodyguards; Western wagering data; and energy use and Bush approval: a case of eerie symmetry. No publisher Jonathan Thompson cap and trade carbon programs Department of Energy climate change Western Governors’ Association greenhouse gases Energy Policy Act of 2005 global warming coal River Basin Judy Greenwald Pew Center on Global Climate US. Congress Change Powder 2010-08-13T23:01:17Z News Article