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    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.19/metalpalooza-09">        <title>Metalpalooza '09</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.19/metalpalooza-09</link>        <description>Metals mining is making an unexpectedly dramatic comeback in the West.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Cally Carswell</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>platinum</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>copper</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mining</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>gold</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>palladium</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>silver</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:03:59Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/blogs/goat/the-cost-of-progress">        <title>The cost of progress</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/blogs/goat/the-cost-of-progress</link>        <description>Five extraordinary women tested for seventy-five peculiar toxins.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>jeffc</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Corporate Power</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Workers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Latinos and diversity</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Crime</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Class Warfare</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Corruption</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Unintended consequences</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mining</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bad Judgment</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Diversity</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Fire</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oceans</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Immigration</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Water</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Poverty</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Courts</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Science</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Nuclear issues</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bureau of Reclamation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Manufacturing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wildlife</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Sense of place</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Corporate greed</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Small Towns</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Native Americans</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Forest management</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>The Border</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Tribes</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Labor</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wind</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Youth</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Latinos</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Superfund</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Habitat</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Voters</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Climate change</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Energy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Food</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Growth</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Fishing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Politics</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Education</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Agriculture</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>pollution</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2009-05-07T19:39:38Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>Blog Post</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/blogs/goat/a-blacker-hangover">        <title>A midnight lease on the mesa</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/blogs/goat/a-blacker-hangover</link>        <description>An appeal filed today challenges a hasty permit revision for Arizona's Black Mesa Complex. </description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>terrays</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Mining</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Corporate Power</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Energy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Native Americans</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Tribes</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Corruption</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>pollution</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2009-01-22T22:28:44Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>Blog Post</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/14049">        <title>There’s a way to end the RS 2477 road
mess</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/14049</link>        <description>Colorado Democratic Rep. Mark Udall urges support for his
bill that would settle the RS 2477 road issue once and for
all.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Mark Udall</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Mining</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Transportation</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:28:35Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/15996">        <title>We need to store fat from the gas-feeding
frenzy</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/15996</link>        <description>The writer urges Western states to seize the moment and
make the most of the gas bonanza that is enriching private
companies</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Paul Larmer</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Mining</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:28:18Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/15995">        <title>Pombo’s plan to privatize the West must be
stopped</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/15995</link>        <description>The writer asks all those who love the West’s open
spaces to oppose a bill privatizing federal mining claims</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Pepper Trail</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Mining</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:28:18Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/371/17718">        <title>A well</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/371/17718</link>        <description>Glenda Rangel and her family grew up drinking from and
swimming in water tanks dangerously polluted with
uranium.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Florence Williams</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Health</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Nuclear</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mining</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Kathleen Tsosie</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>breast cancer</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>uranium mining</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Navajo
Reservation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Eastern Navajo Dine Against Uranium Mining</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Navajo
activists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Native Americans</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:39:43Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/371/17717">        <title>A patient</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/371/17717</link>        <description>Kathleen Tsosie, who has devoted her life to helping
others, now faces the frightening possibility that her breast
cancer has returned.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Florence Williams</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Health</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Nuclear</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mining</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Kathleen Tsosie</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>breast cancer</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>uranium mining</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Navajo
Reservation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Eastern Navajo Dine Against Uranium Mining</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Navajo
activists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Native Americans</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:39:42Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/311/15944">        <title>Public-lands agenda turns more radical, urgent</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/311/15944</link>        <description>Rep. Richard Pombo has inserted a provision in the House
budget bill that will reform United States mining law to allow for
the selling off of public lands</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Michelle Burkhart</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Mining</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Richard Pombo</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>public lands</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mining claims</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mining law</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mining patents</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>real estate industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jim Gibbons</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>national parks</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Republican party</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Joshua Tree National Park</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Yosemite National
Park</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>North Cascades National Park</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Death Valley National Park</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Uncom</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:31:55Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/302/15667">        <title>Tales of Colorado's high-elevation tailings</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/302/15667</link>        <description>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.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jessica Clement</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Mining</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Pollution</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Communities in Transition</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Gillian Klucas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Leadville</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Colorado</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Doc Smith</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mining
pollution</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mine waste</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Environmental Protection Agency</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Arkansas
River</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Old West</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Colorado history</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>small towns</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>socio-economics</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:25:40Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/289/15192">        <title>Nevada BLM cleans out cleanup project manager</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/289/15192</link>        <description>Earle Dixon says the Bureau of Land Management fired him
because he tried to enforce environmental and public safety laws in
the course of the Yerington Mine cleanup in Nevada</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Laura Paskus</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Mining</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Reclamation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Whistle Blowers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Earle Dixon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Nevada BLM</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Robert Abbey</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Yerington Mine</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mine cleanup</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mining reclamation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>worker safety</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Anaconda Copper
Co.</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Atlantic Richfield</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>water contamination</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>whistleblower</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>uranium</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>radioactive waste</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>EPA</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Great Basin Mine Watch</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Eyssa
Rosen</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>PEER</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:22:39Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/257/14210">        <title>Digging through the dust of Libby</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/257/14210</link>        <description>Journalist Andrea Peacock chronicles the tragic story of
Libby, Mont., and its betrayal by the W.R. Grace Corp. in Libby,
Montana: Asbestos and the Deadly Silence of an American
Corporation</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Michelle Nijhuis</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Mining</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Vermiculite</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>asbestos</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Libby</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Montana</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>W.R. Grace Corp.</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mine workers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>respiratory disease</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>cancer</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>asbestosis</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T10:13:29Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/227/11234">        <title>Dear Friends</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/227/11234</link>        <description>The threat of a coalbed methane boom in Delta county,
Colo., High Country News' backyard, has staff scrambling as
activists to publish an informative booklet that contains articles
on the controversial subject.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Ed Marston</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Mining</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:53:30Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/371/17708">        <title>On Cancer’s Trail</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/371/17708</link>        <description>The women in Stefanie Raymond-Whish’s family have a
history of breast cancer, and the young Navajo biologist wants to
know whether the uranium on the reservation might have something to
do with it.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Florence Williams</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Navajo Reservation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mining</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Stefanie Raymond-Whish</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>endocrine disruptors</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>uranium mining</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>cancer research</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Nuclear</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>breast cancer</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Green Justice</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Native Americans</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Health</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Dyer</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Cheryl</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>scientific researchers</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-07-22T22:57:40Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/240/13599">        <title>Like Butte, a lonely dog hangs on</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/240/13599</link>        <description>A mysterious, mangy, half-wild dog known locally as "The
Auditor" has made the moonscape of the Butte’s Berkeley Pit
his home for 16 years, hanging on to life as stubbornly as the town
of Butte itself.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Matt Vincent</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Communities In Transition</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mining</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-03-11T20:26:36Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>



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