The women in Stefanie Raymond-Whish’s family have a
history of breast cancer, and the young Navajo biologist wants to
know whether the uranium on the reservation might have something to
do with it.
Mining
A working group calls for reforms in advance of a green metals boom.
As National Public Lands Day approaches, Indigenous leaders discuss working with agencies to manage dispossessed lands.
In 1885, white coal miners in Wyoming Territory, murdered at least 28 Chinese men and ran the rest of the Chinese out of town at gunpoint. These artworks bring that history back to the present.
Nellie Sandoval, the mother of scientist Stefanie
Raymond-Whish, has become an outspoken activist as a result of her
own struggle with breast cancer.
Glenda Rangel and her family grew up drinking from and
swimming in water tanks dangerously polluted with
uranium.
Kathleen Tsosie, who has devoted her life to helping
others, now faces the frightening possibility that her breast
cancer has returned.
In Idaho and Wyoming, old eminent domain laws allow
private entities to condemn landowners’ property – as
Peter and Judy Riede discovered when J.R. Simplot Co. announced
plans to expand its phosphate mine and build a road across their
ranch.
Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer is eager to build a synfuels
plant to turn coal into diesel, but it will neither easy nor cheap
to make gas gasification a reality in the West
Graphics show the location of the West’s nuclear
sites and uranium sources, and the nuclear fuel cycle is
described
With global warming an increasing threat, some are urging
a return to nuclear energy, but the industry’s own checkered
past reminds us that a nuclear renaissance will be neither easy nor
cheap
The writer urges Western states to seize the moment and
make the most of the gas bonanza that is enriching private
companies
The writer asks all those who love the West’s open
spaces to oppose a bill privatizing federal mining claims
Rep. Richard Pombo has inserted a provision in the House
budget bill that will reform United States mining law to allow for
the selling off of public lands
Utah’s Great Salt Lake is loaded with mercury, and
scientists are trying to figure out whether Nevada’s gold
mines are part of the problem
In Leadville: The Struggle to Revive an American
Town, Gillian Klucas describes the history and the
current environmental and economic struggles of the old mining town
of Leadville, Colo.
Earle Dixon says the Bureau of Land Management fired him
because he tried to enforce environmental and public safety laws in
the course of the Yerington Mine cleanup in Nevada
Journalist Andrea Peacock chronicles the tragic story of
Libby, Mont., and its betrayal by the W.R. Grace Corp. in Libby,
Montana: Asbestos and the Deadly Silence of an American
Corporation
Colorado Democratic Rep. Mark Udall urges support for his
bill that would settle the RS 2477 road issue once and for
all.
A mysterious, mangy, half-wild dog known locally as "The
Auditor" has made the moonscape of the Butte’s Berkeley Pit
his home for 16 years, hanging on to life as stubbornly as the town
of Butte itself.
When Paonia, Colo., resident Richard Rudin challenged a
local mine's plans for expansion, the town was painfully divided,
until the efforts of the North Fork Coal Working Group brought
miners, environmentalists and agencies together for a
solution.
The deaths of 342 migrating snow geese in Montana's
Berkeley Pit are blamed on the pit's toxicity by environmentalists,
although the mine disputes it.
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