Texaco gasification effort raised citizen eyebrows

The Northern Cheyenne Indian tribe in southern Montana has become the first land manager to ask the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to allow it to keep its air clean with a Class I designation, which would affect the planned expansion of the Colstrip coal-fired power plant. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.15/download-entire-issue

Residents of southern Colorado’s San Luis Valley aren’t waiting for federal or state lawmakers to solve their energy problems. They have taken the matter into their own hands, and have several dozen working solar systems as proof of their success. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.14/download-entire-issue

Each successive dam that has been built in the Columbia River and its tributaries has posed new problems for the salmon and steelhead that return to the streams each year to spawn. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.14/download-entire-issue

Wyoming’s Red Desert, full of grotesque geologic structures and thousands of greasewood-studded lake beds that dry to great expanses of red crust, is a strange place in need of defenders. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.13/download-entire-issue

Land that is scenic, well-watered, and with recreation opportunities will be heavily used regardless of whether or not it is designated as wilderness. Many wilderness areas receive little use at all. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.12/download-entire-issue

The Bureau of Reclamation’s Navajo Indian Irrigation Project brings modern, irrigated agriculture to a parched landscape — and the possibility of large-scale industry that could compete for the water. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.11/download-entire-issue

A coalition of 19 conservation organizations warns that the proposed Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA) of 1976 would severely limit the federal government’s ability to protect long-term natural resource values, putting the nation’s public lands at risk. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.10/download-entire-issue

Southern California Edison has backed down from its plan to construct the controversial 3,000 megawatt Kaiparowits coal-fired power plant in central Utah, citing increasing costs, environmental constraints, and pending regulatory legislation. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.9/download-entire-issue

The Laramie River Conservation Council is challenging the Wyoming Industrial Siting Council’s decision to allow construction of the 1,500 megawatt Missouri Basin Power Project coal-fired power plant near Wheatland, Wyoming. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.9/download-entire-issue