http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 15. http://www.hcn.org/issues/281/14958 The "perpetual treatment" trust fund requirement faces its first challenge in Nevada, where the mining industry and the EPA disagree over how much money will be needed to treat long-lasting pollution at the Phoenix mine No publisher Jodi Peterson Reclamation Hardrock mining hard-rock mining mining reform 1872 General Mining Act mine reclamation perpetual treatment trust fund long-term pollution cleanup Newmont Mining Corp. Battle Mountain Gold Company Phoenix mine EPA Environmental Protection A 2010-02-05T09:20:55Z 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/wotr/16964 The Environmental Protection Agency’s quiet efforts to dismantle its own technical libraries are likely to hamstring scientific research – and freedom of thought – across the nation, Jeff Ruch warns. No publisher Jeff Ruch Science EPA Environmental Protection Agency Bush administration EPA libraries technical libraries scientific research federal budget politicizing science Republican Congress chemical information pesticides chemical libraries Superfund sites freedom of inf 2010-02-05T09:43:09Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/259/14269 While Congress debates whether Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt should take over the Environmental Protection Agency, the agency itself plows ahead in an anti-environmental direction No publisher Laura Paskus Environmental Protection Agency EPA Mike Leavitt Clear Skies Initiative Bush administration Superfund Christine Todd Whitman 2010-02-05T10:13:48Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.21/what-lies-beneath 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. No publisher Sarah Gilman legacy pesticides Western communities lead carcinogens contaminated soil Barber Orchard North Carolina DDT birth defects groundwater arsenic pollution EPA 2010-12-13T16:41:16Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/40.23/the-sick-and-tired-west Eleven key Westerners speak with HCN about their hopes and worries for an Obama administration. No publisher Ray Ring Mercury pollution Factory farms Hard-rock mining Air pollution Public health Hydraulic fracturing Water pollution Perchlorate Pesticides Bush environmental policy EPA 2010-02-05T08:57:29Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/261/14337 Outgoing California Gov. Gray Davis is working with Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski and Washington Gov. Gary Locke on a regionwide plan for slowing greenhouse gas emissions No publisher Puanani Mench greenhouse gas emissions global warming Gray Davis Gary Locke Ted Kulongoski Clean Air Act Environmental Protection Agency EPA 2010-02-05T09:55:05Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/349/17079 On the messy bureaucratic soap opera As Interior Turns, the cast keeps changing, and getting indicted; Good Samaritans need to able to clean up old mines without getting burned; foreign countries drive Western mining boom; and data about mining No publisher Jonathan Thompson Italia Federici Washington scandals Interior Department mining pollution 1872 Mining Law J. Steven Griles Jack Abramoff EPA 2010-07-29T23:42:49Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/367/17603 A good time to buy a McMansion – cheap; lawmakers wrangle over development; “eco-terrorism” in suburbia; EPA head honcho in trouble; cleaning up dirty Western air – and a few dirty Western politicians. No publisher Sarah Gilman and Jodi Peterson Earth Liberation Stephen Johnson Western real estate political scandals pollution Front air Housing slump EPA 2010-08-11T22:52:46Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/362/17454 EPA stymies California’s attempt to cut tailpipe emissions; the West is growing but not sure where its next meal or drink of water will come from; increasing amounts of ammonium – and guns – in the parks; avalanche fatalities are up. No publisher Sarah Gilman and Jodi Peterson national parks global warming Western population growth avalanche fatalities carbon emissions EPA 2011-02-14T23:09:29Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/this-earth-day-its-all-about-the-air If you can take a nice deep breath and enjoy a clear blue sky, thank the Clean Air Act. No publisher Tim Lydon Clean Air Act Republicans air pollution climate change Earth Day greenhouse gases Democrats environmental movement EPA 2011-04-19T18:10:13Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/40.23/un-clearing-the-air The EPA under George Bush has put the health of Westerners at risk in order to make life easier for big industry. No publisher Rebecca Clarren Air pollution Energy industry Oil and gas drilling Larry Svoboda Utah BLM Ozone pollution Bush environmental policy Clear Air Act EPA 2010-02-05T08:57:28Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.2/the-latest-biomass-emissions The EPA will not regulate greenhouse gas emissions from biomass facilities for the next three years. No publisher Jodi Peterson Biomass energy alternative energy greenhouse gas emissions EPA 2011-02-03T17:44:46Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/318/16175 EPA abandons attempt to regulate hydraulic fracturing; BLM briefly cuts forestry school funding and Republican Rep. Greg Walden grills logging critic Dan Donato; California regulator tries to stop ecological crash in San Francisco Bay-Delta No publisher Matt Jenkins EPA coalbed methane hydraulic fracturing frac’ing whistleblowers toxic chemicals Clean Water Act Mark Udall Nikki Tinsley groundwater contamination Oregon State University school of forestry BLM Dan Donato 2011-12-15T16:53:13Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/314/16041 Petroglyph boulders moved for controversial Albuquerque highway; Hilmar Cheese can drill "test well" for its wastewater; Richard Pombo’s plan to fast-track oil shale stymied; wilderness vs. helicopter skiing in Wyoming No publisher Matt Jenkins Petroglyph National Monument rock art Albuquerque road building highway construction EPA Hilmar Cheese cheese wastewater Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board groundwater contamination Rep. Richard Pombo oil shale energy industry 2010-02-05T08:56:32Z News Article