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John Quarles Jr. of the Environmental Protection Agency shocked his audience when he said: “The simple truth is that we are running out. Running out of pure air. Out of pure water. Out of virgin timber … But most of all, we are running out of time.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/6.2/download-entire-issue

The national president of the Farmers Union says the problems being created by the western push of the giant coal companies must be met head-on. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/6.1/download-entire-issue

CER Geonuclear Corp., whose Project Rio Blanco used three underground nuclear explosions to try and stimulate oil-shale production, is working to clear the way for more nuclear blasts in Colorado. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.25/download-entire-issue

The wilderness review process for New Mexico’s Aldo Leopold Wilderness was moving along slowly and smoothly until copper mining interests jammed the proposal in the U.S. House. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.24/download-entire-issue

Congressional hearings are expected to be completed before the end of the session on administration bills to create a Department of Energy and Natural Resources and transfer functions of several agencies now outside the Interior to that department. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.23/download-entire-issue

A map of the waterways surrounding the Powder River Basin, with potential reservoirs that may be developed to support coal-fired power plants. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.23/download-entire-issue

The first environmental impact statement (EIS) for any project in the massive program to develop the coal resources of the Northern Plains is being prepared. The EIS will analyze Peabody Coal Company’s plans to mine federal coal near their Big Sky Mine south of Colstrip, Mont. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.16/download-entire-issue

Marga Raskin, a representative of the Sierra Club has, commended Secretary of the Interior Rogers C.B. Morton for halting construction of the Kaiparowits power plant on the grounds that it would significantly degrade southern Utah’s air. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.15/download-entire-issue

A Senate bill with the grandiose aim of establishing a national land use policy falls hopelessly short of that aim and needs strong amending in a House version. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.14/download-entire-issue

A Washington D. C. federal appeals court overruled a lower court decision and said that the Atomic Energy Commission needs to do an environmental impact statement on their proposed liquid metal fast breeder reactor (LMFBR) program. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.14/download-entire-issue

A recent ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court saying that the Environmental Protection Agency cannot allow “significant deterioration” of air quality may deter construction of Montana Power’s Colstrip Units One and Two. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.13/download-entire-issue

When the courts blocked the construction of the trans-Alaska pipeline, they gave Congress the opportunity and responsibility to obtain an environmentally sound answer to the Alaskan oil development question — a decision that’s coming due. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.12/download-entire-issue

A summary of the state of various renewable energy technologies and their context within the politics of fossil fuels and the energy crisis. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.12/download-entire-issue

Following the disastrous episode of the oil spill in the San Juan River, and the consequent danger of oil pollution in Lake Powell, the question has been raised of other potential disasters in that southern Utah area. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.11/download-entire-issue

A fever has broken out in South Dakota. Symptoms are the ‘desire to hike’ wilderness trails, an adventuring instinct, and a love for untapped nature. It’s called back-packingitis. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.11/download-entire-issue

Bear Lake, which straddles the Utah-Idaho border, attracts fishermen, bird-watchers, and others who come to enjoy its cool waters. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.10/download-entire-issue

A recent report by the National Center for Voluntary Action stresses that one of the major problems facing the environmental movement is lack of government cooperation and encouragement. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.10/download-entire-issue

Project Rio Blanco, a partnership between CER Geonuclear Corp. and the Atomic Energy Commission, will detonate three 30-kiloton nuclear devices underground in northwest Colorado to stimulate extraction of hydrocarbons. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.9/download-entire-issue

Years after the construction of the Libby Dam on the Kootenai River in Montana forced a re-routing of a Burlington Northern rail line, the area cleared for the rail line remains an open sore on the land. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.9/download-entire-issue

Acting Secretary of Interior John Whitaker has issued a letter of reprimand to Dean Visintainer, a rancher who pleaded guilty to shooting several golden eagles from an aircraft in northwestern Colorado. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.8/download-entire-issue