The Solar Energy Research Institute's connections with the federal Department of Defense have the private-sector solar industry doubting the impact the institute will have on spreading solar technology.
Items by Michael Moss
Bureau of Land Management head Bob Burford scares conservationists and tips the scales of management toward greater development of BLM land.
One thousand miles upriver from Mexico's farmers, in Colorado's Grand Valley, the federal effort to control salinity is floundering.
Large, national retail companies take advantage of industrial revenue bonds intended to provide cheap capital to financially undernourished communities.
Low-interest loan programs will likely benefit large, already successful farmers and investors, while doing little to aid small or beginning farmers.
Trying to lure economic growth to Colorado's Western Slope, Club 20 has promised everyone from winemakers to oil shale developers that they can have room to grow with minimal governmental interference.
Thousands of plans to create new hydroelectric, solar, geothermal or industry-cogenerated power under the 1978 Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act are being fought by electric utilities.
A proposal to retrofit a high-mountain dam near Aspen, Colorado is one of dozens of potential hydropower projects in the Rocky Mountain Region.
A renewed proposal to dam Colorado's Yampa River pits the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission against the Department of Interior.
A farm near Boulder, Colorado illustrates the challenges of passing family farms on to future generations, and of the hurdles to young farmers in general.
Rural monies are being drained out to urban industries by a banking system that is becoming more concentrated and less locally-owned as commercial banks abandon their agricultural customers in favor of new, more profitable lending enterprises.
Inheritance taxes negate the rise in farmland value and consume some farms that would otherwise pass on to the farmers' heirs, prompting efforts to reform tax laws.
Despite efforts by Idaho's Public Utilities Commission, the innovative energy source known as cogeneration remains stalled by a complex of financing and regulatory stumbling blocks.
As Salt Lake City sprawls toward the Kennecott's Bingham copper mine, issues of air and water pollution are pressed on state regulators.
A congressional investigation has found that there may be serious undiscovered drinking water problems on the Navajo Indian Reservation.
Two years after its manufacture was banned, and some 18 months since an accidental spill in Montana contaminated foodstuffs in Western states, the carcinogenic insulation fluid known as PCB remains in widespread use, largely unregulated and undisposable.
Environmental regulators are perplexed as they grapple with what they're calling the most pressing environmental problem of the 1980s -- hazardous waste.
Public officials' response to a spill of toxic water at the Alumet phosphate mine is stoking criticism of the expanding phosphate industry in southeastern Idaho.
As profits from farming plummet and urban areas encroach on rural surroundings, farmers are increasingly selling their land to subdivision developers.
In a move enveloped by political controversy, Secretary of Interior Cecil Andrus has fired the director of the National Park Service, William Whalen.
Proponents and critics jostle over the Central Utah Project, which would bring water from Utah's Bonneville Basin to the bustling Wasatch Front.
The congressional debate over preserving the last remaining forest wild lands took a perplexing turn earlier this month, as Rep. Thomas Foley (D- Wash.) introduced his second omnibus national wilderness bill.
Some conservative Western senators are unexpectedly calling for cuts to federal water project spending -- and environmentalists should cooperate by not fighting the few water projects that might have some redeeming value.
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