Two Colorado environmental groups are charging that the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board is violating the law by not requiring two oil shale projects to obtain mining permits for their current phases of operation. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.22/download-entire-issue
Shale firms bypass Colorado permit process
Posted inNovember 18, 1977: South Wyoming may not look like much, but ...
Cutler: wilderness areas don’t have to be pristine, virgin
In the second of a two-part series, Dave Foreman responds to the argument that over-eager conservationists degrade the wilderness system by fighting to include inferior areas in it. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.22/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 4, 1977: Solar heating industry troubled by installation, operating problems
Solar heating industry troubled by installation, operating problems
The stories of solar homeowners indicate that harnessing the sun for heat by putting collectors on a roof may not be as simple as it appears. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.21/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 4, 1977: Solar heating industry troubled by installation, operating problems
Clean Air Act: making it work for you
With the passage of the Clean Air Act Amendments, much of the burden — and potential for protecting air — is shifted to states and Indian tribes. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.21/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 4, 1977: Solar heating industry troubled by installation, operating problems
Are we degrading the Wilderness System?
In the first of a two-part series, Dave Foreman responds to the argument that over-eager conservationists degrade the wilderness system by fighting to include inferior areas in it. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.21/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 21, 1977: Destined for conflict -- or destruction
Montana Power, EPA dispute blame for layoffs
After the Environmental Protection Agency shut down construction of Montana Power Co.’s Colstrip units 3 and 4 because of lack of two permits required by federal and state laws, more than a hundred laid-off construction workers have become pawns in the battle. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.20/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 21, 1977: Destined for conflict -- or destruction
In situ gas from coal: bane or boon?
An experimental burn of an underground coal seam near Hanna, Wyo., is the latest in a series of tests by the U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration to determine the feasibility of making burnable gas from coal while it’s still in the ground. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.20/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 21, 1977: Destined for conflict -- or destruction
Destined for conflict — or destruction
If America expects to preserve the grizzly bear, certain public land use policies must change. And there is no better example than the custom of allowing thousands of domestic sheep to graze the last remnants of grizzly habitat around Yellowstone National Park. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.20/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 7, 1977: Former foes try combining forces
Water won’t stretch for Western cities’ growth
Recent cases — in which public agencies decided that cities would not get what they demand at the expense of other resources — indicate that cities in the West are gradually being forced to accept the limits that lack of water will impose. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.19/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 7, 1977: Former foes try combining forces
Former foes try combining forces
In the West, environmentalists and farmers and ranchers have worked together for several years opposing some common threats, including coal mines, loss of agricultural water, the social impact of industrialization, and transmission lines. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.19/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 7, 1977: Former foes try combining forces
Court halts Western coal leases
A U.S. District Court judge has ruled that the Interior Department must not resume federal coal leasing until new environmental studies have been made and a complete reevaluation of the leasing program is conducted. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.19/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 23, 1977: Flathead Coalition primes for battle with Canada
Miners attack coal strip mining law
The mining industry is highly critical of the federal strip mining regulations recently published by the U.S. Interior Department. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.18/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 23, 1977: Flathead Coalition primes for battle with Canada
Hardin attacks freedom, philanthropy
Garrett Hardin’s confrontations with some of the most basic tenets of Western civilization have piqued racial minorities, sociologists, churchmen, political liberals and conservatives alike. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.18/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 23, 1977: Flathead Coalition primes for battle with Canada
Flathead Coalition primes for battle with Canada
Concerned citizens in Montana’s North Fork Flathead River valley are organizing against a proposal by Sage Creek Coal Ltd. to mine coal upstream, across the Canadian border. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.18/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 9, 1977: Firms buy out opposition
Geologists document off-road vehicle damage
As President Jimmy Carter issued restrictions to off-road vehicle (ORV) use, building on the restriction issued in 1972 by then-President Richard Nixon, the Geological Society of America released a report detailing the impacts of ORV use, primarily in California. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.17/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 9, 1977: Firms buy out opposition
Firms buy out opposition
ANG Coal Gasification Company quieted opposition to its plans for a facility in North Dakota by purchasing land owned by members of the community who opposed the project. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.17/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 9, 1977: Firms buy out opposition
Desolation Canyon becoming perhaps too popular
The Bureau of Reclamation may begin a reservation system for the Desolation Canyon section of Utah’s Green River amid concerns about the growing number of river visitors. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.17/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 12, 1977: Northern Cheyenne tribe wins Class I air quality
Northern Cheyenne tribe wins Class I air quality
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved the Northern Cheyenne Indian tribe’s request for Class I — the most stringent classification — air quality for its reservation, a decision that could have a major impact on nearby construction of the Colstrip power plant units 3 and 4. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.16/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 12, 1977: Northern Cheyenne tribe wins Class I air quality
John Muir: a cultural hero lost in his mythology
John Muir, the legendary preservationist who wandered the Sierra Nevada, tends to be viewed as a hero dressed in simple guise; a closer look shows him as a complex man, like the rest of us capable of gloom and hesitation. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.16/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 12, 1977: Northern Cheyenne tribe wins Class I air quality
Carter’s water politics to strangle the West?
The Carter Administration’s proposals for reforming national water policy may ruffle the longstanding laws of prior appropriation, and have Western politicians and water user groups fighting mad. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.16/download-entire-issue