The environmental effects of nuclear power

The insatiable demand for electricity has put increasing emphasis on nuclear energy. But will proliferating nuclear power plants raise radiation to dangerously high levels? How will the nuclear waste be disposed of? An atomic scientist answers these questions and more in a multi-article series. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.5/download-entire-issue

It has now been seven months since helicopter pilot James Vogan went before a Senate subcommittee and revealed the illegal deaths of hundreds of eagles on Herman Werners’s Wyoming ranch — what has happened to justice? Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.5/download-entire-issue

Poisoning banned! The news burst like a bombshell over the rangelands of the West. And repercussions are still echoing from Montana to Texas. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.4/download-entire-issue

Montana Governor Forrest Anderson effectively sabotaged that state’s air pollution program by refusing to sign the proposed implementation of federal standards. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.4/download-entire-issue

Big game herds, hit with the harsh winter of 1971-72 and faced with steady shrinkage of winter range, continue to decline. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.3/download-entire-issue

Senator Gale McGee, D-Wyo., responding to news that President Nixon has killed a proposed executive order aimed at tighter regulation of clear cutting on public lands, has charged that “large timber interests continue to call the shots for the Nixon Administration on national forest management policies.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.2/download-entire-issue

The public lands of the West and Alaska constitute one of the greatest treasures remaining in the public domain. We are down to the vestiges — what was least desirable in the settling of this great country — but these vestiges are now immensely valuable. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.1/download-entire-issue

The power industry could build at least five 10,000-megawatt coal-fired power plants in the Powder River Basin of Montana and Wyoming, with staggering social, economic and environmental implications. (To read the full text, click on the “View a PDF from the original” link below, or download a PDF of the entire issue: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.1/download-entire-issue.) This article appeared […]

As giant energy companies obtain federal leases to mine coal over vast areas of the West, Senator Gaylord Nelson is leading an effort to halt stripmining’s “environmental warfare on our own country.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.25/download-entire-issue

A U.S. Attorney has charged four Utah men with killing a bald eagle and 12 golden eagles near Saratoga, Wyo. — the first charges to be filed in the alleged killing of some 700-800 eagles in southern Wyoming and northern Colorado. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.25/download-entire-issue