Residents of Reserve, New Mexico, are poking holes in a plan that would turn the airspace over their town into a jet training ground. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.21/download-entire-issue
A tiny town fights the U.S. Air Force
Posted inOctober 31, 1983: What Watt wrought
James Watt left his mark on Idaho
Watt’s unique concept of balanced management landed on Idaho with his appointments to the BLM districts’ citizen advisory boards. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.20/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 31, 1983: What Watt wrought
Citizens and the Forest Service join forces to save a wilderness area
When Colorado’s Indian Peaks Wilderness drastically changed its regulations recently, it did so with the help of a unique band of citizens called the Indian Peaks Wilderness Area Working Group. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.20/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 31, 1983: What Watt wrought
Watt’s ignorance of coal proved fatal
Secretary James Watt’s downfall was caused largely by his apparent failure to understand the major coal issues and the economy that has evolved since his early stint in Interior in the mid-1970s. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.20/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 14, 1983: A lawsuit drills oil and gas leases
The busted West competes for a TV-dinner factory
Three Western communities recently went all out to attract a $75 million Stouffer Corporation factory and its 1200 jobs. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.19/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 14, 1983: A lawsuit drills oil and gas leases
A lawsuit drills oil and gas leases
The battle over oil and gas drilling in the Palisades area straddling the Idaho-Wyoming border illustrates the chaotic way in which natural resource development and wilderness preservation decisions are made. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.19/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 14, 1983: A lawsuit drills oil and gas leases
Coal slurry pipelines go down the tubes
An unlikely coalition of railroads and environmentalists have claimed victory over coal slurry interests. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.19/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 3, 1983: Floods reveal water policy chaos
Watt calls out the ‘True America’
James Watt must be seen as a man with a mission. Unlike a Richard Nixon or a Ronald Reagan, Watt’s mission is more important to him than politics. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.18/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 3, 1983: Floods reveal water policy chaos
An empty ditch becomes a river
For three years, Dave Odell has dedicated himself to the resurrection of Montana’s irrigation-stressed Bitterroot River. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.18/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 3, 1983: Floods reveal water policy chaos
Floods reveal water policy chaos
Was this year’s high water a “controlled flood” as the Bureau of Reclamation contends? Or was it, as residents along the Lower Colorado maintain, a “manmade disaster”? Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.18/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 19, 1983: Acid rain: a corrosive issue across the nation
Wyoming gets rid of natural gas with a flare
Wyoming is helping America rid itself of the natural gas bubble. For more than a month now the state has let well owners flare $40,000 to $70,000 worth of natural gas a day. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.17/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 19, 1983: Acid rain: a corrosive issue across the nation
Acid rain won’t boom the West’s coal
Although the passage of the Clean Air Act in 1970 created higher demand for low-sulfur coal, quadrupling Western coal production in a decade, the 1980s acid rain legislation won’t have the same effect. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.17/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 19, 1983: Acid rain: a corrosive issue across the nation
Acid rain: a corrosive issue across the nation
Despite a few rearguard skirmishes over the “scientific” question, the real issue has become: how much reduction in acidic emissions will there be, and how will those reduction be achieved? Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.17/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 5, 1983: Dollars no longer flow uphill
Nuking the media
Trickery and half-truths are what the nuclear industry and its appendages fed to America’s journalists for several decades. It used journalists to tell America that nuclear power was perfectly safe, run by well-trained technicians, and would provide the nation with endless amounts of very cheap energy. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.16/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 5, 1983: Dollars no longer flow uphill
Navajos, utility agree to talk
The Navajo tribe and Public Service Company of New Mexico have stopped struggling for control over 35,000 acres of coal-rich land south of Farmington. Instead, they’ve begun to negotiate a partnership to jointly develop a power plant there. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.16/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 5, 1983: Dollars no longer flow uphill
Dollars no longer flow uphill
Everyone from dam builders to dam blockers agrees that no new, large and federally funded dams are likely to be built. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.16/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 5, 1983: Missiles, men and Armageddon
WPPSS, there goes another billion
The Washington Public Power Supply System continued to shudder toward total collapse when formal default was recently declared on $2.25 billion in bonds issued to finance construction of two now-terminated nuclear power plants. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.15/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 5, 1983: Missiles, men and Armageddon
Hanford and INEL: Building bombs in the Rockies
What this administration needs now — according to its spokesman — is a good $4 billion tritium producer to help produce enough strategic fuel for the neutron bomb, the cruise missile, the MX and the other additions to the nuclear arsenal. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.15/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 5, 1983: Missiles, men and Armageddon
Missiles, men and Armageddon
The Rockies and Great Plains are home to virtually all of the United States’ land-based nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.15/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 22, 1983: San Juan Basin faces massive coal sale
Volunteers in Parks: a booming program
Both the U.S. Forest Service and the National Park Service are relying more heavily on their already successful programs, and the number of volunteers in the parks and national forests is increasing. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.14/download-entire-issue