EPA shrinks from regulating tons of dust stirred up by coal mines

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 […]

As the National Park Service has expanded to manage new and unusual places, it has grown into a sprawling agency that is less professional than the Forest Service, less dedicated to management principles than the Fish and Widlife Service, and more set in its ways than the Bureau of Land Management. Download entire issue to […]

During his tenure as Secretary of the Interior Department, at a time when settlers simply took what they wanted from public lands, Carl Schurz pushed to put into practice the conservation ethic developed by George Perkins Marsh and others. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.19/download-entire-issue

Despite criticism, Alan Merson, recently appointed the regional administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency in Denver, doesn’t back down from claims that he’s an environmentalist. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.19/download-entire-issue

A federal judge’s order to halt construction of the Grayrocks Dam in Wheatland, Wyo., could shrink the generating capacity of the 1,500 megawatt coal-fired power plant the dam would have served. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.19/download-entire-issue

Members of the Navajo Tribe and local Indian pueblos have formed the Native American Appropriate Technology Action Council as a way to develop and promote technologies like solar that are cheap, decentralized, and that generate a spirit of self-determination. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.18/download-entire-issue

A Sierra Club member’s attempt to compromise on oil and gas development on potential wilderness lands along the Overthrust Belt — a 60-mile wide swath of high petroleum potential that runs from northwestern Montana south into Utah — has won only mild praise and some criticism from the energy industry. Download entire issue to view […]

The Alaska National Interest Lands Act, which includes protections for Gates of the Arctic National Park, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and other wild lands, faces a tricky Congress debate and a looming deadline. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.17/download-entire-issue

Despite President Jimmy Carter’s warning that he will veto any appropriations bill that includes six contested water projects, Congress has included those projects in the 1979 Public Works Appropriations bill. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.16/download-entire-issue

George Perkins Marsh’s seminal book Man and Nature would be his lasting contribution, but it was only a sideline to his lifelong curiosity over man’s role in nature’s changes. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.16/download-entire-issue

Preliminary results from studies of vegetation near the Colstrip, Montana, coal-fired power plant indicate that plants are absorbing sulfur dioxide, and that crops and grazing land could be dramatically affected in the long term. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.15/download-entire-issue