Air, taxes top lawmakers’ agenda

As legislators across the Rocky Mountain region convene, chances for additional progressive environmental legislation vary widely. A summary of lawmakers’ agendas in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho and North Dakota. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.2/download-entire-issue

As the 96th Congress convenes, the gains of the past decade and a half may be sorely tested by legislators well-tuned to demands for fiscal conservatism. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.1/download-entire-issue

John Burroughs, a student of Walt Whitman and a companion to industrialist Henry Ford, may have had a spotty record of activism, but his part in protecting the nature he loved was far greater than he himself imagined. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.25/download-entire-issue

As the Bureau of Land Management inventories potential wilderness on the 174 million acres its oversees in the Western states, industry spokesmen are leveling charges of “land grab” while conservationists are concerned about the compressed timetables and a lack of knowledge. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.25/download-entire-issue

A plan to divert the South Platte River in order to recharge groundwater and ease an agricultural water shortage on Colorado’s northeastern plains might also create wetlands that would provide needed wildlife habitat. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.24/download-entire-issue

Many appropriate technologists feel that their approaches and devices are in danger of being undermined and co-opted by the bastions of industry. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.24/download-entire-issue

The Tennessee Valley Authority will begin remediation of a uranium mill in Edgemont, South Dakota, and the agreement about who will pay for the cleanup could pave the way for remediation of other sites across the West that are contaminated by uranium. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.23/download-entire-issue

The forerunner of the militant environmentalism of the 1960s and 1970s was William T. Hornaday, a man who had been dead and largely ignored for 30 years — a man not wholly admired for making  fellow conservation leaders blush by his overzealous and often unjust attacks. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.23/download-entire-issue

Largely because of pocketbook promises from the candidates, voters in the Northern Plains and Rockies states have apparently stacked the deck against progressive environmental lawmaking in the state legislatures next year. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.22/download-entire-issue

The U.S. Forest Service’s poll of 360,000 people on the subject of wilderness and roadless lands reveals a great deal of anti-wilderness sentiment as the agency retires into secrecy to develop its final proposals for the second Roadless Area Review and Evaluation (RARE II). Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.21/download-entire-issue

Amory Lovins delivers a message that grassroots efforts and individual action can create a transition to “soft technology” — diverse, renewable, relatively simple and matched in scale to their end use needs. To read the full text, click on the “View a PDF from the original” link below, or download a PDF of the entire […]