http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 91 to 105. 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/290/15223 Greater sage grouse will not be listed under Endangered Species Act; cleanup of Nevada’s Yerington Mine is turned over to the EPA; wilderness supporters plan to reintroduce bills in new Congress No publisher Laura Paskus Greater sage grouse Endangered Species Act U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Yerington Mine Nevada Anaconda Copper mining reclamation Environmental Protection Agency Bureau of Land Management Nevada Division of Environmental Protection wildernes 2010-02-05T09:22:49Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/289/15192 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 No publisher Laura Paskus Mining Reclamation Whistle Blowers Earle Dixon Nevada BLM Robert Abbey Yerington Mine mine cleanup mining reclamation worker safety Anaconda Copper Co. Atlantic Richfield water contamination whistleblower uranium radioactive waste EPA Great Basin Mine Watch Eyssa Rosen PEER 2010-02-05T09:22:39Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/289/15179 Under increasing political pressure from the Bush administration and its appointees, agency scientists find it difficult to keep both their jobs and their integrity No publisher Laura Paskus Public Lands Science Federal Employees Whistle Blowers whistleblowers federal employees public employees scientists federal biologists PEER Jeff Ruch Weston Wilson Earle Dixon hydraulic fracturing frac’ing oil and gas industry coalbed methane Wendell and Kay Goad government agencies U.S. Fis 2010-02-05T09:22:21Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/285/15093 Paul Rogat Loeb’s inspirational anthology The Impossible Will Take a Little While, lives up to its subtitle; it’s truly "a citizen’s guide to hope in a time of fear" No publisher Laura Paskus Advocacy Groups Environmental politics environmental issues citizen involvement poetry Wendell 2010-02-05T09:21:49Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/285/15075 California’s Proposition 64 could limit environmentalists’ power to sue; Washington’s Initiative Measure 892 would expand gambling; new voters registering, including Nevada felons No publisher Laura Paskus Elections California ballot Proposition 64 Initiative Measure 892 Just Treat Us the Same Washington state gambling electronic scratch tickets Native Americans Indian reservations voter registration new voters Nevada Progressive Leadership Alliance Chris 2010-02-05T09:21:38Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/285/15074 Fish and shellfish must be labeled – with a few exceptions; 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to be divided into three; Xcel Energy commits its customers to coal No publisher Laura Paskus 2002 Farm Bill fish shellfish tuna smoked fish food safety food origins USDA 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Mike Simpson 12th Circuit Court 13th Circuit Court Xcel Energy Colorado Public Utilities Commission coal-fired power plants 2010-02-05T09:21:37Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/285/15073 The Bush administration halts three gas wells on Montana’s Rocky Mountain Front, and tosses a few more election-year bones to environmentalists and hunters No publisher Laura Paskus Politics Elections Oil and Gas Rocky Mountain Front Montana oil and gas development Bush environmental policy Gale Norton Interior Department Gloria Flora Lewis and Clark National Forest Forest Service BLM Public Lands Advocacy Claire Moseley Theodore Roosevelt Conservation 2010-02-05T09:21:36Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/285/15072 Terry Tempest Williams on the First Amendment; HCN Portland board meeting; remembering Judy Jacobsen No publisher Laura Paskus and Paul Larmer High Country News Dear Friends Terry Tempest Williams Open Space of Democracy Florida Gulf Coast University William C. Merwin First Amendment Jeb Bush George W. Bush presidential election HCN board of directors Ray Ring Felix Magowan Paul Lar 2010-02-05T09:21:36Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/284/15050 Arizona’s Proposition 200 would prevent noncitizens from voting, among other things; Utah’s Initiative 1 would spend money on open space and preservation; Ralph Nader will be on New Mexico’s ballot No publisher Laura Paskus Elections Proposition 200 Arizona Tax Payer and Citizen Protection Act illegal immigrants undocumented aliens Federation for American Immigration Reform Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund Initiative 1 open space historical sites Utah la 2010-02-05T09:21:29Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/284/15044 Colorado’s Great Sand Dunes now a national park; health screening program for former nuclear workers to expire; Forest Service didn’t break any laws with its Sierra Nevada PR campaign; rocket-burning begins at Oregon’s Umatilla Chemical Depot No publisher Laura Paskus Great Sand Dunes National Park Colorado Energy Department Hanford Nuclear Reservation nuclear workers Former Worker Medical Screening Program Forest Service Sierra Nevada Forests With a Future Government Accountability Office Umatilla Chemica 2010-02-05T09:21:26Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/283/15019 Private-property rights group wants to overhaul Oregon’s land-use laws; Initiative 297 in Washington would prohibit Hanford Nuclear Reservation from accepting more waste; Fish and Wildlife Service opens more refuges to hunting and fishing No publisher Laura Paskus Elections Oregonians in action Wal-Mart Expansion Act AFL-CIO Oregon land-use laws 1 000 Friends of Oregon Private property rights Heart of America Northwest Hanford Nuclear Reservation radioactive waste toxic waste shipments Republican National Conven 2010-02-05T09:21:18Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/283/15015 Energy Department, Bechtel Jacobs mess up shipping of radioactive waste; Interior Department’s damaged records of Indian trust accounts; public comment time extended on Roadless Rule No publisher Laura Paskus Energy Department Waste Isolation Pilot Plant WIPP New Mexico Environment Department radioactive waste hazardous waste Nevada Test Site Bechtel Jacobs nuclear waste accidents mishaps Interior Department Indian trust accounts Royce Lamberth 2010-02-05T09:21:13Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/283/15013 End of summer visitors to HCN; ex-interns make good; corrections No publisher Laura Paskus High Country News Dear Friends Rosemary Winters Zachary Smith Dan Wilcock Lewis and Clark 2010-02-05T09:21:12Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/282/14991 A proposed law would allow California commuters who drive some hybrid vehicles to use the state’s carpool lanes, and the CEO of Ford Motor Co. is not happy about it No publisher Laura Paskus Politics State Legislatures California Legislature Fran Pavley Bill Ford Ford Motor Co. hybrid vehicles carpool lanes Toyota Prius Honda Insight hybrid Civic 2005 Escape Hybrid 2010-02-05T09:21:05Z News Article