http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 15. http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.9/coping-with-two-headed-fish-and-other-effects-of-selenium Researchers try to determine if unhealthy amounts of selenium are entering Western soil and water due to energy development. No publisher Danielle Venton Kesterson reservoir oil and gas development irrigation wildlife deformities groundwater pollution riparian soil disturbance fish JoAnn Holloway Selenium J.R. Simplot BLM U.S. Geological Survey water pollution Muddy Creek, Wyoming wildlife birds reptiles 2012-05-30T17:41:17Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/let-the-epa-finish-its-work-in-pavillion-wyoming The gas industry and its political partners are going to great lengths to try to derail and discredit an EPA report that blames Pavillion, Wyoming’s polluted water on hydraulic fracking. No publisher John Fenton groundwater pollution ranchers fracking chemicals Wyoming fracking hydraulic fracturing Pavillion drinking water oil and gas industry water pollution toxic chemicals EPA 2012-01-25T16:55:03Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.21/water-quality-standards-unfairly-burden-rural-communities The plight of a small water and sewer association in rural Mora, N.M -- caught in a tangle of federal and state clean water rules it can’t afford to meet -- echoes experienced by other rural communities around the West. No publisher Judith Lewis Mernit total maximum daily loads Mora River Montana River Action groundwater pollution agricultural runoff Mora Mutual Water and Sewer Association northern New Mexico communities water quality laws TMDLs James Bearzi Clean Water Act New Mexico Environment Department California Clarence Aragon Environmental Protection Agency Mora, New Mexico water pollution Los Angeles County septic tanks 2011-12-21T15:57:22Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/greens-need-to-occupy-the-occupy-movement Today's activists need to get more involved in protesting the environmental profiteering that is destroying our planet. No publisher Tim Lydon Powder River Basin environmental activists protest movements corporate power air pollution climate change Bristol Bay salmon Exxon Valdez clear-cuts global warming timber companies Arch Coal Pebble Mine Alaska fisheries water pollution Peabody Coal Company Occupy Wall Street coal power plants oil spills 2011-12-20T18:26:22Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.13/yellowstone-leak-highlights-a-different-kind-of-oil-spill A recent oil spill in Montana's Yellowstone River reminds Westerners that not all such environmental disasters happen in the Gulf of Mexico. No publisher Cally Carswell Exxon Mobil Silvertip pipeline Yellowstone River oil spill oil sands crude water pollution pipeline safety 2011-08-09T15:00:59Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.11/for-steelhead-dirty-water-might-be-better-than-clean A wastewater treatment plant provides nutrients that help endangered steelhead thrive in an Idaho stream. No publisher Amanda Peacher West Fork Little Bear Creek Ricardo Sanchez-Murillo steelhead habitat water pollution Endangered Species Act endangered fish 2011-07-11T14:15:18Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/springtime-in-the-rockies The beautiful spring in Colorado's San Luis Valley is a bitter contrast to the tragedy unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico. No publisher Christina Nealson Gulf Coast oil spill Mancos Valley Colorado rivers water pollution U.S. energy use BP 2010-06-10T16:42:38Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/17162 Tony Dean says it is way past time to modernize the 1872 Mining Law. No publisher Tony Dean 1872 Mining Law hardrock mines water pollution reclamation gold Whitewood Creek South Dakota 2010-02-05T09:44:08Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/302/15655 The Bush administration has reclassified mining waste as "fill," and now a gold mine plans to dump its waste directly into an Alaskan lake No publisher Tony Barboza Pollution Bush administration Clean Water Act mining wastes water pollution Lower Slate Lake Coeur Alaska Coeur d’Alene Mines Corp. Kensington Mine Juneau Empire Southeast Alaska Conservation Council Kat Hall mine tailings Bush environmental policy 2010-02-05T09:25:37Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/301/15618 The Hilmar Cheese Company near Modesto, Calif., wants to dig a deep well to dispose of its salty, milky wastewater No publisher Tony Barboza Pollution Modesto California Central Valley Regional Water Quality Board Hilmar Cheese Company cheese factories cheese waste wastewater water pollution water quality wells aquifers Chuck Ahlen California Food and Agriculture Jo Anne Kipps Environmenta 2010-02-05T09:25:27Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/297/15469 The Department of Energy finally agrees to move the Atlas uranium mine tailings pile away from Moab, Utah, and the flood risk of the Colorado River. No publisher Matt Jenkins Pollution Uranium Moab Utah Atlas Minerals Corporation Atlas tailings pile uranium mining Colorado River water pollution radioactive waste mine tailings mining waste Bill Hedden Grand Canyon Trust Energy Department Bill Richardson Spencer Abraham Samuel Bodm 2010-02-05T09:24:30Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/296/15435 EPA will investigate allegations that bunk science led to approval of hydraulic fracturing; racketeering lawsuit against environmentalist dismissed; ACLU sues over BLM’s decision to Wyoming’s Martin’s Cove historic site to Mormon Church No publisher Matt Jenkins EPA Nikki L. Tinsley hydraulic fracturing frac’ing bunk science whistleblowers Weston Wilson coalbed methane drilling toxic chemicals groundwater contamination water pollution Sandy Steers Manuel Real Big Bear Lake California Friends of Faw 2010-02-05T09:24:19Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/294/15368 Diesel fuel – leaking from a massive railroad refueling depot –slips into a major drinking water aquifer on the Idaho-Washington border. No publisher Kevin Taylor Pollution Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad refueling depot diesel groundwater water pollution freight trains Mark Stehly Idaho Department of Environmental Quality Spokane Valley-Rathdrum Aquifer Lake Coeur d’Alene Lake Pend Oreille Spokane Washingt 2010-02-05T09:23:58Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/287/15135 The Environmental Protection Agency withdraws a proposed rule change that would have allowed fatal amounts of selenium in fish. No publisher Gail Binkly Waste EPA selenium fish water pollution agricultural runoff coal mining phosphate mining Joseph Skorupa Sacramento Bee Kesterson Wildlife Refuge Dianne Feinstein Cathy Milbourn 2010-02-05T09:22:02Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/278/14886 New reports from the United States Commission on Ocean Policy and the Pew Oceans Commission agree that America’s oceans are over-fished, polluted, and in desperate need of new management policies No publisher Jodi Peterson Pollution Ocean health fisheries water pollution U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy Pew Oceans Commission Bush environmental policy marine wildlife 2010-02-05T09:58:11Z News Article