Club criticizes Kaiparowits

Marga Raskin, a representative of the Sierra Club has, commended Secretary of the Interior Rogers C.B. Morton for halting construction of the Kaiparowits power plant on the grounds that it would significantly degrade southern Utah’s air. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.15/download-entire-issue

A Washington D. C. federal appeals court overruled a lower court decision and said that the Atomic Energy Commission needs to do an environmental impact statement on their proposed liquid metal fast breeder reactor (LMFBR) program. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.14/download-entire-issue

A Senate bill with the grandiose aim of establishing a national land use policy falls hopelessly short of that aim and needs strong amending in a House version. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.14/download-entire-issue

A recent ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court saying that the Environmental Protection Agency cannot allow “significant deterioration” of air quality may deter construction of Montana Power’s Colstrip Units One and Two. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.13/download-entire-issue

A summary of the state of various renewable energy technologies and their context within the politics of fossil fuels and the energy crisis. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.12/download-entire-issue

When the courts blocked the construction of the trans-Alaska pipeline, they gave Congress the opportunity and responsibility to obtain an environmentally sound answer to the Alaskan oil development question — a decision that’s coming due. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.12/download-entire-issue

A fever has broken out in South Dakota. Symptoms are the ‘desire to hike’ wilderness trails, an adventuring instinct, and a love for untapped nature. It’s called back-packingitis. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.11/download-entire-issue

Following the disastrous episode of the oil spill in the San Juan River, and the consequent danger of oil pollution in Lake Powell, the question has been raised of other potential disasters in that southern Utah area. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.11/download-entire-issue

A recent report by the National Center for Voluntary Action stresses that one of the major problems facing the environmental movement is lack of government cooperation and encouragement. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.10/download-entire-issue

Bear Lake, which straddles the Utah-Idaho border, attracts fishermen, bird-watchers, and others who come to enjoy its cool waters. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.10/download-entire-issue

Years after the construction of the Libby Dam on the Kootenai River in Montana forced a re-routing of a Burlington Northern rail line, the area cleared for the rail line remains an open sore on the land. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.9/download-entire-issue

Project Rio Blanco, a partnership between CER Geonuclear Corp. and the Atomic Energy Commission, will detonate three 30-kiloton nuclear devices underground in northwest Colorado to stimulate extraction of hydrocarbons. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.9/download-entire-issue

Pending federal legislation would establish a wildlife refuge in California’s Owens Valley for tule elk, a subspecies of North American elk that once thrived on the east side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.8/download-entire-issue