Fending off nature’s bill collector with planning

Posted inDecember 14, 1979: Canny CERT gets respect, money, problems

NRC tailings control too lax, Wyoming charges

by Marjane Ambler

Western Nuclear Inc. has agreed to comply with the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality and stop construction of a uranium tailings dam that the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission already permitted, highlighting the gap between state and federal regulations. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.24/download-entire-issue

Posted inNovember 30, 1979: Agency's wilderness grazing policies 'too pure'

Lone Ranger Nader: Just what does he want?

by Peter Wild

A look at Ralph Nader’s background lends support to a view of him as a product of America’s traditional idealism — an idealism that has generated conflicts throughout the country’s history because it is frequently at odds with political and economic realities. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.23/download-entire-issue

Posted inOctober 19, 1979: Sizing up a new fuel that may be coming soon to a pump near you

Study says geothermal plan may hurt geysers

by Philip White

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

Posted inOctober 19, 1979: Sizing up a new fuel that may be coming soon to a pump near you

Sizing up a new fuel that may be coming soon to a pump near you

by Ann Schimpf

In what appears to be an about-face, the U.S. departments of energy and agriculture and several major oil companies are beginning to embrace that notion that alcohol production can play a role in solving the country’s energy problems. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.20/download-entire-issue

Posted inOctober 19, 1979: Sizing up a new fuel that may be coming soon to a pump near you

Barry Commoner boils ecology down to basics: ‘There’s no free lunch.’

by Peter Wild

Barry Commoner, the ‘Paul Revere of Ecology,’ is now stepping into the political arena to shape the Citizens Party, a group that he says will address such issues as jobs, inflation, alternative energy and citizen control of natural resources in the 1980 election. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.20/download-entire-issue

Posted inOctober 5, 1979: Quiet Stillwater disturbed by platinum plant

U.S. Steel urges workers: fight EPA air regs

by Marjane Ambler

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

Posted inOctober 5, 1979: Quiet Stillwater disturbed by platinum plant

Quiet Stillwater disturbed by platinum plant

by Phil Primack

As mining companies sniff around a huge platinum deposit along Montana’s Beartooth Mountain front, locals and state wildlife officials are wondering whether the ranching, hunting, fishing and scenery will be displaced by tunnels, roads and smelters. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.19/download-entire-issue

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