Kennecott Copper wants to clean up Bingham Canyon copper
mine on its own, while Environmental Protection Agency wants to
make it a Superfund site.
Items by Jon Christensen
Barrick Goldstrike Mines pays U.S. $10,000 for $10 billion
in gold.
Patricia Mulroy negotiates for Southern Nevada Water
Authority.
A reporter chronicles the strange happenings (that we
shouldn't know about) at the top-secret Nevada Test Site.
Department of Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary launches an
"openness initiative' that reveals the DOE's sordid past.
'Goldfield: The last Gold Rush on the Western Frontier' by
Sally Zanjani showcases a boomtown with a thousand
stories.
A "Review of Hardrock Mine Reclamation Practices in
Western States' by Ann Kersten and Susan Lynn provides technical
background for mining law reform.
Congress will select a conference committee to negotiate a
compromise mining bill.
People for the West! stages a protest a BLM decision to
allow a massive copper mining project in the historic Robinson
mining district is appealed
Babbitt's grazing reform plans will be implemented
slowly.
The Nevada Legislature refuses the temptation of millions
in federal funds by opposing the nuclear waste dump at Yucca
Mt.
Groundwater pumping dries Milt Thompson's Diamond Valley
Ranch.
A wary rancher joins an environmental group after
groundwater pumping dries his ranch.
Department head Hazel O'Leary takes steps to revitalize
the Department Of Energy.
Spring snowmelt helps the endangered cui-cui sucker fish
in Nevada.
Nuclear bomb testing could resume in Nevada.
Depleted uranium bullets threaten radioactive
contamination on military testing ranges.
The Desert Fishes Council publishes a series of
papers.
Cowboy poets gather in Elko, Nevada.
An interstate water leasing plan proposal threatens
agriculture on Colorado's Western Slope.
A brief history of the Department of Energyis
outlined.
Newly appointed DOE head, Hazel O'Leary, charts a new
course for the Department of Energy.
A low-level nuclear waste dump closes in Beatty,
Nevada.
The atomic age began with a big bang. The buildup to the Cold War took place in a few short years. But the struggle over its legacy and lessons for humanity have just begun.
A handful of Western Shoshones have declared independence from the United States at the remote northern Nevada ranch of Carrie and Mary Dann.
Until recently, Las Vegas appeared to be thriving on its unique brand of illusion, while the rest of the country wallowed in a deepening recession. Now hard times have come to Glitter Gulch and the Strip, too, once thought immune to economic doldrums.
The nuclear industry is betting nearly a million dollars that Nevadans can learn to love a nuclear waste dump.
As a full moon slipped behind the rugged peaks of the Toquima Range, the first light of dawn illuminated a meadow where uniformed Forest Service rangers were saddling horses. Their mission was to round up unauthorized cattle on the Toiyabe National Forest in remote central Nevada.
For many of the Navy and Air Force pilots who would fly deadly missions in Operation Desert Storm, their first experience with live bombs was in the Nevada desert.
When 2,500 anti-nuclear protesters came here to vex the Nevada Test Site early in January, probably the last thing they expected was a lecture on democracy from their Soviet counterparts in the peace movement.
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