Proponents and critics jostle over the Central Utah Project, which would bring water from Utah’s Bonneville Basin to the bustling Wasatch Front. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.7/download-entire-issue
Debate roils over Utah’s troubled waters
Posted inMarch 21, 1980: The grizzly: How many? Where? For how long?
The grizzly: How many? Where? For how long?
The Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team, a group of game experts from state and federal agencies, may determine the future of the grizzly. To read the full text, click on the “View a PDF from the original” link below (shorter download), or download a PDF of the entire issue: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.6/download-entire-issue This article appeared in the print […]
Posted inMarch 21, 1980: The grizzly: How many? Where? For how long?
Hydrocarbon hunt leads to wilderness
Ambiguities in the Wilderness Act leave open the possibility of oil and gas development in Montana’s Bob Marshall Wilderness and other wilderness areas. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.6/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 21, 1980: The grizzly: How many? Where? For how long?
Foley II: Second try at wilderness ‘release’
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. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.6/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 7, 1980: How many coal bucks should a smart state lasso?
Influential ‘techno-twit’ mines U.S. energy inefficiencies
Amory Lovins says the industrialized world suffers not from energy want but from energy waste, and foresees a future where energy bills go down, benefiting both utilities and consumers. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.5/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 7, 1980: How many coal bucks should a smart state lasso?
How many coal bucks should a smart state lasso?
States apply a variety of severance taxes to non-renewable resources such as coal, defying efforts to create a unified, national approach. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.5/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 7, 1980: How many coal bucks should a smart state lasso?
Business-as-usual politics spurs new dam foes
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. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.5/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 22, 1980: Tailings, pollution haunt uranium company town
The Sagebrush Rebellion: Misdirected dynamite
The real danger of the Sagebrush Rebellion is not that the federal lands will be taken over but that the deep sentiments aroused by the effort will drive a wedge between agricultural and environmental interests. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.4/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 22, 1980: Tailings, pollution haunt uranium company town
Tailings, pollution haunt uranium company town
Uravan, Colorado, wholly owned by the metals division of Union Carbide, faces serious pollution problems caused by operation of one of the oldest uranium mills in America. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.4/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 22, 1980: Tailings, pollution haunt uranium company town
Federal coyote control mellows; mutton-raisers talk mutiny
A recent policy shift made by the Interior Department in its Animal Damage Control program has generally pleased environmentalists and raised hackles among sheepmen, who see the action as a betrayal. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.4/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 8, 1980: High heating costs fire up consumers in Rockies
U.S. House funds Burlington Dam but not Libby
The Libby Dam, proposed for Montana’s Kootenai River and opposed by a local sportsman’s group, was rejected by the U.S. House in a bill that approved North Dakota’s controversial Burlington Dam. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.3/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 8, 1980: High heating costs fire up consumers in Rockies
Idaho tells feds: ‘stop dumping radioactive wastes into aquifer’
Idaho citizens and political leaders are battling federal energy officials in an effort to halt pumping of radioactive wastes from the Department of Energy’s National Engineering Laboratory into the Snake River Plain Aquifer. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.3/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 8, 1980: High heating costs fire up consumers in Rockies
High heating costs fire up consumers in Rockies
Rising fuels costs mean higher heating bills for homeowners and businesses, with no relief in sight. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.3/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 25, 1980: Study of radioactive homes 'lost' for eight years
Teapot Dome earns big as private drillers steam
Oil pumped from the federal oil reserve at Teapot Dome, Wyoming, sells at prices six times higher than oil from adjacent private fields because of price controls. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.2/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 25, 1980: Study of radioactive homes 'lost' for eight years
Study of radioactive homes ‘lost’ for eight years
A study, initiated by the Environmental Protection Agency but never released to the public, documents high radioactivity in more than a hundred communities where uranium tailings were used as construction fill material. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.2/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 25, 1980: Study of radioactive homes 'lost' for eight years
How Grinnell and the buffalo rescued Yellowstone
George Bird Grinnell, commissioned to explore the newly formed Yellowstone National Park and report on its wonders, found in the buffalo a concrete symbol to generate deep public sentiment. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.2/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 11, 1980: New kind of 'public interest' group pushes growth
New kind of ‘public interest’ group pushes growth
Although Denver-based Mountain States Legal Foundation describes itself as a public interest legal group, it advocates for private property rights and free enterprise. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.1/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 11, 1980: New kind of 'public interest' group pushes growth
Federal energy program taking shape in Congress
After more than seven years of trying, Congress is close to enacting a comprehensive national energy program that would include a government-sponsored synthetic fuels program and a “fast-track” board to speed domestic energy projects. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.1/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 28, 1979: Fending off nature's bill collector with planning
Utah water conflict unites environmentalists, ranchers
Ranchers and environmentalists in Utah’s Kane Country — where residents a few years ago hanged an effigy of Robert Redford as a statement against his environmentalism — are now protesting the Interior Department to stop a coal strip mine. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.25/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 28, 1979: Fending off nature's bill collector with planning
Hail and farewell! 1979
A Holiday season ode to the West’s environmental issues of 1979: “It’s time for reviewing the year first to last: // A remembrance of two dozen deadlines past. // Water and wilderness, endangered species, // Oil, Alaska, railroads and coal leases;” Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.25/download-entire-issue