Marjane Ambler

All three of North Dakota’s congressmen were first elected before the environment was a major political issue, and because the state has a strong tradition of returning incumbents to office, all three continue to be re-elected despite their generally poor environmental records. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.4/download-entire-issue

Conservationists are alarmed by a bill that would makes it easier for the Bonneville Power Administration to build power plants in Western coal-producing states. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.1/download-entire-issue

Indian tribes, given land that a hundred years ago was often considered wasteland, realize that the vast wealth of their coal, oil, gas, and uranium can represent both a threat as well as a blessing, and are taking steps to increase tribal influence over Indian-owned energy resources. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.25/download-entire-issue

In the West, environmentalists and farmers and ranchers have worked together for several years opposing some common threats, including coal mines, loss of agricultural water, the social impact of industrialization, and transmission lines. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.19/download-entire-issue

Recent headlines saying that 22 Indian tribes are meeting with the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) have brought national attention to the Council of Energy Resource Tribes, an organization that had virtually been ignored since its formation in 1975. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.15/download-entire-issue

A massive Canadian energy complex along the U.S.-Canadian border in Saskatchewan is becoming one of the most complicated legal controversies the West has ever faced. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.11/download-entire-issue

For the Shoshone and Arapahoe Indian tribes, everything is at stake in a suit filed by the state of Wyoming requiring more than 20,000 water users in the Bighorn River basin to defend their water rights. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.8/download-entire-issue

The Missouri Basin Power Project, a consortium of utilities, hopes to use construction of a 1,500 megawatt coal-fired power plant in Wheatland, Wyoming, as an example of industry turning a rural community into a lively place to live. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.2/download-entire-issue

Rock Springs — Wyoming’s best known boom town — has become a symbol of what happens to a town when development hits suddenly, leaving local officials unprepared. HCN chatted informally with Rock Springs oldtimers about the continuing effects of the boom. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.22/download-entire-issue

Events in the months preceding Montana’s election have convinced nuclear initiative proponents that Montana is a state where large corporate interests still have an unusually strong hold on state government. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.21/download-entire-issue

Residents of the tiny mountain community of Shell, Wyoming, emerged from an unlikely planning meeting with smiles on their faces, having created a land-use plan that apparently satisfied even those who were most opposed. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.16/download-entire-issue

The Northern Cheyenne Indian tribe in southern Montana has become the first land manager to ask the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to allow it to keep its air clean with a Class I designation, which would affect the planned expansion of the Colstrip coal-fired power plant. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.15/download-entire-issue

The Laramie River Conservation Council is challenging the Wyoming Industrial Siting Council’s decision to allow construction of the 1,500 megawatt Missouri Basin Power Project coal-fired power plant near Wheatland, Wyoming. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.9/download-entire-issue

More and more rural residents are starting to resent transmission lines as the lines proliferate across the open spaces of the West, marring the scenery, hindering farm operations, and producing ozone, which may be harmful to crops. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.24/download-entire-issue

Near the remote ranching community of Circle, Montana, the Burlington Northern railroad company plans to construct a coal gasification plant that would produce not only natural gas but also fertilizer. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.22/download-entire-issue