Over 50 years after the Manhattan Project and Los Alamos
National Laboratory were built on land owned by Hispanic farmers,
descendents of those farmers have sued the Dept. of Energy, saying
they were illegally evicted.
Military
Indigenous youth caucus calls for demilitarization of Hawai‘i.
How a day on the river made me question my relationship to a place I call home.
In ‘Red Nation Rising,’ violence in the communities abutting reservations illuminates colonialism’s continued presence.
The new Minuteman Missile National Historic Site in South
Dakota will teach visitors about the Cold War and its once-top
secret weaponry.
A former manager at the Army's chemical weapons
incinerator in Tooele County, Utah, says he was threatened with
firing if he talked about the plant's environmental
problems.
In Culver City, Calif., the Center for Land Use
Interpretation is featuring an exhibit on Nevada's Nellis Air Force
Bombing and Gunnery Range, home of the notorious - and mysterious -
Area 51.
Environmentalists and other critics are irate at Sen. John
McCain's proposal to allow the military use of 3 million acres of
public land in Arizona and New Mexico, including the Cabeza Prieta
National Wildlife Refuge in Arizona.
In eastern Colorado, farmers are upset by an EPA plan to
transform hazardous waste from a Denver Superfund site into
fertilizer to be spread on fields near Deer Trail.
Idaho's Land Board turns down an environmental group's
$5,000 bid in favor of the Air Force's $10 bid on the Juniper Butte
area, which the Air Force seeks for a training range.
Activist Grace Potorti has spent the last 15 years as a
watchdog on the military in Nevada, and her efforts have helped to
bring about reform at Nellis Air Force Base.
A BLM plan to expand jet training outside of Nevada's
Dixie Valley has angered almost everyone on the high
desert.
The U.S. Air Force plans to offer Idaho rancher Bert
Brackett around $1 million to turn his grazing allotment into a
bombing range.
In northern New Mexico, residents battle Air Force plans
for a new bombing range.
In Colorado's Wet Mountain Valley, activists fight a
Colorado Airspace Initiative that would allow more frequent
overflights for military training.
Proposed military expansions in various Western
states.
The military seeks expansion of its ranges and airspace in
the West through more than a dozen proposals.
The first year of chemical weapons incineration at Tooele,
Utah, has been full of stops and starts, but the Army claims good
progress has been made.
A proposed bombing range for the German Air Force in New
Mexico raises the ire of local ranchers and
environmentalists.
The prospect of expanded low-level military training
flights by the German Air Force in the American Southwest will
"highly annoy" the local humans, and do more than just annoy the
wildlife.
The Montana National Guard is stymied by prairie dogs
threatening underground power lines and communications systems at
Fort Harrison.
The U.S. Air Force tries again to get air space over the
Owyhee Canyonlands for bombing and training flights.
A federal judge allows chemical weapons incinerating to go
on at Tooele, Utah, despite environmental warnings of the
dangers.
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- Botanists find one of ‘the world’s worst weeds’ spreading in the Boise foothills
- Alaska’s Willow Project promises huge amounts of oil — and huge environmental impacts
- Scientists unravel the origins of the Southwest’s monsoon
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