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 […]
Canny CERT gets respect, money, problems
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
Posted inNovember 16, 1979: New coalition inspired by FARM conference
The boom reaches across the tracks
The influx of workers drawn to the booming uranium and coal economy of Rawlins, Wyoming, threatens the stability of the town’s old Hispanic community. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.22/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 16, 1979: New coalition inspired by FARM conference
New coalition inspired by FARM conference
The future of agriculture in the Rocky Mountain states may hinge on a trade-off with energy development spurred by the energy crisis. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.22/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 16, 1979: New coalition inspired by FARM conference
Energy boom hurts women, minorities most
Research indicates that the oil, gas and uranium boom that has hit the Rocky Mountain West in the past five years has been, for women and minorities, not a shot in the arm but a kick in the face. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.22/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 2, 1979: Wildlife and livestock face off in refuge battle
Wildlife and livestock face off in refuge battle
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Bureau of Land Management are cutting back on grazing permits in Montana’s Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge, angering ranchers. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.21/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 2, 1979: Wildlife and livestock face off in refuge battle
NRC proposes major revision of tailings regs
An analysis of present methods of disposing of uranium mill tailings has led the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to propose major regulation changes. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.21/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 2, 1979: Wildlife and livestock face off in refuge battle
Fish and Wildlife Service: growth and contradiction
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, charged with protecting birds, beasts, and fish, has serious internal problems, such as applying tons of harmful pesticides to the lands it manages. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.21/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
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
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.’
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
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
Ranchers’ group demands legal lasso for wild horses
With the unexpected blessing of a wild horse advocate and several environmentalists, a rancher group has filed suit to force the, federal government to thin wild horse herds in southwest Wyoming. 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
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
Posted inSeptember 21, 1979: Northern Tier oil pipe likely to go if dollars flow
The gentle, genial man behind the Wilderness Act
Howard Zahniser, although lesser known than Bob Marshall or John Muir, was an unlikely and humble champion of wilderness who rallied the nation behind the Wilderness Act of 1964. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.18/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 21, 1979: Northern Tier oil pipe likely to go if dollars flow
Northern Tier oil pipe likely to go if dollars flow
The 1,500-mile Northern Tier pipeline, which would transport Alaskan crude oil from Port Angeles, Wash. to Clearbrook, Minn., is expected to be approved by Interior Secretary Cecil Andrus and President Carter. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.18/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 21, 1979: Northern Tier oil pipe likely to go if dollars flow
Future uncertain for Hart’s ‘boomtown’ bill
Citing Craig, Colo. and Rock Springs and Gillette, Wyo. as some of the most extreme examples of communities stressed by rapid development of their energy resources, Sen. Gary Hart is pressing for federal aid to these and other boom towns. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.18/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 7, 1979: Boulder smolders as growth struggle continues
Sagebrush Rebellion brushfires scorch feds
The so-called “Sagebrush Rebellion” has begun, and an Idaho senator says it looks as if it may become a revolution of sorts. To read this article, click the “View a PDF from the original” link below. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Sagebrush Rebellion brushfires scorch feds.