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
Tailings, pollution haunt uranium company town
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
Posted inDecember 28, 1979: Fending off nature's bill collector with planning
Fending off nature’s bill collector with planning
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt understood stewardship — understood the significance of an America overgrazed, overfarmed and carelessly logged. 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
Explosive issue: plan to ‘bomb’ Bob Marshall
A plan to detonate explosives in Montana’s Bob Marshall Wilderness in a search for oil and gas deposits has sparked anger among environmentalists and words of caution from federal officials. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.25/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 14, 1979: Canny CERT gets respect, money, problems
Wolves: the animals that man created
Nowhere in human history has fiction so outdistanced fact as in the lore of the wolf. Along with spiders, snakes and sharks, Carl Jung lists the wolf as generating almost universal fear in the human psyche. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.24/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 14, 1979: Canny CERT gets respect, money, problems
NRC tailings control too lax, Wyoming charges
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 inDecember 14, 1979: Canny CERT gets respect, money, problems
Canny CERT gets respect, money, problems
Despite its problems and dissidents, the Council of Energy Resource Tribes — comprising 25 tribes who own one-third of the low sulfur coal west of the Mississippi and as much as half the privately owned uranium in the country — is emerging as a serious player in the energy development game. Download entire issue to […]
Posted inNovember 30, 1979: Agency's wilderness grazing policies 'too pure'
Lone Ranger Nader: Just what does he want?
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 inNovember 30, 1979: Agency's wilderness grazing policies 'too pure'
DeSmet coal-to-gas plant in the works again
The small town of Buffalo, Wyoming, may face an influx of more than 20,000 people if Texaco Inc. and Texas Eastern Corp. go ahead with plans for a strip mine and coal gasification plant near Lake DeSmet. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.23/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 30, 1979: Agency's wilderness grazing policies 'too pure'
Agency’s wilderness grazing policies ‘too pure’
Some conservationists trying to increase the amount of designated wilderness object to the regulations that the Wilderness Act places on grazing because those regulations draw opposition from ranchers. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.23/download-entire-issue