In a precedent-setting case, Allan Elias is convicted of
"knowing endangerment" for exposing employee Scott Dominguez to
cyanide in an accident that damaged his nervous system.
Climate Change
A new book advances the idea that protecting old-growth forests is better for the climate than planting new trees.
Viral attention on Black Rock City’s annual festival highlight environmental consequences.
Extreme temperatures and natural disasters push harm reduction workers to find new ways to keep communities safe.
The EPA orders the Potlatch Corp. pulp mill in Lewiston,
Idaho, to cool its wastewater and reduce its pollution of the Snake
River.
The state of Oregon has ordered Portland to reduce sewage
overflow into the Willamette River by 94 percent by 2011, but City
Commissioner Dan Saltzman says the pollution problem is more
complex than that.
In Washington, a tax-slashing ballot initiative is going
to hurt the state's clean-air program.
In Phoenix, Ariz., cases of "Valley Fever" are rising as
rapid development stirs up pathogens in the area's dust.
The Montana Supreme Court's "clean environment" ruling may
help clarify the Montana Environmental Policy Act, considered the
"granddaddy" of the state's environmental laws.
A precedent-setting legal ruling by the Montana Supreme
Court says that Montana citizens have a right to a "clean and
healthful" environment.
The video, "A Toxic Train Runs Through It," investigates
the long-lasting health impacts of a 1996 trail derailment and
toxic chemical spill in Alberton, Montana.
The Mohave Generating Station in southern Nevada agrees to
clean up its operation, which has been notorious for fouling the
air over Arizona's Grand Canyon.
Meteorologists blame La Niûa for recent extreme
weather in the West, with record-breaking snow and rain in the
Northwest and Northern Rockies, and drought in the Southwest
raising fears of summer wildfires.
Big Sky, Montana's plan to discharge treated sewage into
the Gallatin River has environmentalists, locals and even some of
the ritzy ski resort's homeowners in an uproar.
Casper, Wyo.'s Amoco oil refinery is one of the state's
most notorious hazardous waste sites, and some fear that EPA's
decision to turn over responsibility to the Wyoming Dept. of
Environmental Quality means that cleanup will not be
complete.
FMC Corp.'s phosphorous plant near Pocatello, Idaho, is
fined $11.8 million for environmental violations that include a
fire that sent poisonous gas wafting onto Shoshone-Bannock tribal
land.
A clean-air activist who helped end bluegrass-field
burning near Spokane, Wash., is now tackling the practice of
wheat-stubble burning on eastern Washington's farmlands.
Dakota Catalyst Products shuts its Williston, N.D., metals
recycling plant, leaving behind an environmental mess that is just
now becoming public.
Environmentalists say Utah Rep. Chris Cannon's bill
designating San Rafael Swell wilderness is really an
"anti-wilderness bill'' that needs to be opposed.
David T. Hanson's disturbing photographs of industrial
landscapes are "the topography of our open wounds," writes Wendell
Berry in a preface to Hanson's "Waste Land: Meditations on a
Ravaged Landscape."
El Nino's impacts on the West have varied widely and
unpredictably.
The controversial Mohave power plant in Laughlin, Nev., is
a huge operation that provides pollution as well as power to the
Southwest.
A former Hopi chairman says that the owners of the Mohave
Generating Station in Laughlin, Nev., whose smoke pollutes the air
of the Hopi Reservation, have the ability and the obligation to
clean up the plant without closing down.
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