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Research indicates that the oil, gas and uranium boom that has hit the Rocky Mountain West in the past five years has been, for women and minorities, not a shot in the arm but a kick in the face. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.22/download-entire-issue

An analysis of present methods of disposing of uranium mill tailings has led the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to propose major regulation changes. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.21/download-entire-issue

The U.S. Interior Department has reiterated that no drilling will be allowed in the Island Park Geothermal Area next to Yellowstone National Park until there are scientific assurances that drilling poses no threat to Yellowstone’s thermal features. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.20/download-entire-issue

With the unexpected blessing of a wild horse advocate and several environmentalists, a rancher group has filed suit to force the, federal government to thin wild horse herds in southwest Wyoming. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.19/download-entire-issue

U.S. Steel has set Lander, Wyoming, astir by announcing that unless the Environmental Protection Agency relaxes its requirements for air pollution controls at the company’s mill in Utah, it will have to close both the mill and its Wyoming mine. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.19/download-entire-issue

Citing Craig, Colo. and Rock Springs and Gillette, Wyo. as some of the most extreme examples of communities stressed by rapid development of their energy resources, Sen. Gary Hart is pressing for federal aid to these and other boom towns. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.18/download-entire-issue

President Jimmy Carter’s proposals to provide incentives for the production of synthetic fuels from coal have generated little new activity from companies involved in synfuel production. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.17/download-entire-issue

Carbon dioxide gas, locked thousands of feet below the mesa and canyon country of southwestern Colorado, may be the key for the recovery of oil from some abandoned wells. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.16/download-entire-issue

Although a southeastern Utah activist group couches its opposition to a small solar electric generating plant at Natural Bridges National Monument in environmental terms, its real motive is to stop the perceived intrusion of the federal government. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.14/download-entire-issue

Interior Secretary Cecil Andrus has announced a new coal leasing program that could increase Western coal production nearly tenfold by 1990 — to 1.2 billion tons annually. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.14/download-entire-issue

The question of nuclear waste disposal, possibly at the Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Project, was the subject of two days of emotion-packed hearings in New Mexico. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.13/download-entire-issue

With stiff opposition from Western states, Congress is gearing up to debate some of the key elements in President Jimmy Carter’s new water policy, which may force states to share in the costs of federal water projects. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.12/download-entire-issue

Spurred by a desire to stem the loss of productive farmland, several church groups are pouring money into environmental activism in North Dakota. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.12/download-entire-issue

Although Bureau of Land Management officials have decided to ban coal mining to protect antelope winter range in the Red Rim area west of Rawlins, Wyo., a rancher’s fence may jeopardize the animals anyway. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.11/download-entire-issue

About 500 Indians and others gathered near one of the most promising uranium fields in the country, at Mt. Taylor, New Mexico, to protest uranium mining and milling on Indian lands. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.10/download-entire-issue

The Bureau of Land Management plans to erect 44 miles of fences in the Seven Lakes area of southcentral Wyoming’s Red Desert in order to control livestock and wildlife, drawing opposition from wildlife supporters. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.9/download-entire-issue

As South Dakota’s Black Hills have been under extensive exploration for uranium and other minerals in recent years, Indians, ranchers and environmentalists have banded together in opposition. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.8/download-entire-issue

A summary of the stance toward wilderness taken by Colorado Gov. Dick Lamm, Utah Gov. Scott Matheson, Idaho Gov. John Evans, Montana Gov. Thomas Judge, Wyoming Gov. Ed Herschler, and South Dakota Gov. William Janklow. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.7/download-entire-issue

The Utes are threatening to withdraw their support — and 471,000 acre-feet of Ute water rights — from the controversial Central Utah Project if the state does not authorize an Indian-rights compact. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.6/download-entire-issue