The hardscrabble desert town of Carlsbad, N.M. –
already home to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant – is brushing
aside the fears of environmentalists and arms-control advocates in
its eagerness to host the Bush administration’s planned new
nuclear bomb fac
Magazine
September 1, 2003
The hardscrabble desert town of Carlsbad, N.M. – already home to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant – is brushing aside the fears of environmentalists and arms-control advocates in its eagerness to host the Bush administration’s planned new nuclear bomb factory. Also in this issue:Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt, R, is President Bush’s pick to run the Environmental Protection Agency, and some environmentalists fear he will prove little more than a yes-man.
Feature
Sidebar
The Bush administration’s plans to build a new
factory for nuclear bomb triggers could spark a brand-new arms
race, critics say
The Department of Energy says any new nuclear bomb factory
will be safer than Rocky Flats, but critics have their
doubts
Editor's Note
Those who thought the West’s nuclear role would wind
down with the end of the Cold War are facing a brand-new nuclear
age, one that is being created behind closed government doors where
few questions are asked
Essays
Radio High Country News is fondly remembered, along with
the brilliant and crazy people who made it possible
An encounter with Alaska’s Gwich’in people
years ago convinced the writer to give up his truck and take
personal responsibility for the environmental and cultural
destruction caused by consumerism
Book Reviews
Journalist Andrea Peacock chronicles the tragic story of
Libby, Mont., and its betrayal by the W.R. Grace Corp. in Libby,
Montana: Asbestos and the Deadly Silence of an American
Corporation
Plundered Promise: Capitalism, Politics, and the
Fate of the Federal Lands by Richard W. Behan is a
provocative travel guide to the corporate take-over of the public
lands under the Bush administration
A recent study by Defenders of Wildlife documents the Bush
administration’s unprecedented rollback of the National
Environmental Policy Act
Writers on the Range
Putting Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt in charge of the
Environmental Protection Agency is like using a goldfish to guard a
junkyard
Heard Around the West
Boy Scouts with hatchets and heavy equipment; vanishing
Lake Powell; speaking ill of the dead in New Mexico; Forest Service
suspends supervisors for centerfold displays; suspicious of the
Declaration of Independence in Flagstaff; and a Montana stoic
adapt
Dear Friends
Farewell, Radio HCN; and Farewell, radio staffers Adam
Burke, Krissy Clark and the recently arrived Maria Schell
News
Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt, R, is President Bush’s pick
to run the Environmental Protection Agency, and some
environmentalists fear he will prove little more than a
yes-man
Interior Department’s top lawyer, William Myers,
under investigation for conflict of interest; Kane County, Utah,
goes after BLM road signs; pro-property rights Paragon Foundation
joins enviros in fighting to protect New Mexico’s Otero Mesa;
and compromis
Despite the warnings of scientists who say it’s a
bad idea, the Bush administration is eager to log trees burned by
the Biscuit Fire in Oregon’s Siskiyou National
Forest
In Western Colorado, locals burned by the oil shale boom
20 years ago are dubious about planned natural gas drilling on the
Roan Plateau, especially since the BLM unexpectedly dropped their
favorite plan
The Bush administration plans to more than double the
amount of logging in public forests west of the Cascades in
Washington, Oregon and Northern California
Three federal judges, ruling in three environmentalist
lawsuits, tell the Department of Energy that it has to be more
careful with nuclear waste
The environmental group Forest Guardians outbids a rancher
to gain control of a grazing allotment on state school-trust land
in Arizona
Colorado developer Tom Chapman is marketing an inholding
in the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, advertising it
online on eBay while the federal government scurries to meet his
price
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