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Pop Goes the Diesel Partnership formed to fight diesel fumes		30 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Pop Goes the Diesel Partnership formed to fight diesel fumes The U.S. EPA this week announced the formation of a partnership to undertake voluntary, cooperative measures to reduce the impact of diesel fumes on Western states. (Diesel fumes, for those of you tuning in late, kill people. Lots of people.) Most of the money funding the measures will come from the federal government; the EPA hopes to secure $100 million over five ...
Topics: air pollution, US EPA, West (all these topics)

Go West, Young Pollutocrat! Bush administration makes big push for oil and gas drilling in West		28 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Go West, Young Pollutocrat! Bush administration makes big push for oil and gas drilling in West With unprecedented speed, the Bush administration has opened vast swaths of environmentally sensitive land in the West to oil and gas drilling -- this by-now-familiar story is told comprehensively in articles in The Washington Post and The Seattle Times. The situation is summed up by Dave Alberswerth, former Clinton adviser and n ...
Topics: energy, natural gas, oil, West (all these topics)

The Ghost of Mining Past Abandoned Mines Continue to Pollute the West		14 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
The Ghost of Mining Past Abandoned Mines Continue to Pollute the West There are some 500,000 abandoned mines in the U.S., 20 percent of which are severely polluting nearby rivers and groundwater. Most of the mines are in the West, and the U.S. EPA estimates that 40 percent of all Western headwater streams are now polluted by abandoned hard-rock mines. Poisoned rivers mean trout numbers are declining across the ...
Topics: mining and drilling, toxics, US EPA, West (all these topics)

Snow News Day The Yellowstone snowmobile controversy gets more convoluted by the minute	Amanda Griscom	18 Feb 2004	Muckraker
The past few days have brought two more odd legal twists and turns to the Yellowstone snowmobile saga, which is becoming more litigiously complex and far-flung than a John Grisham novel. She's got a ticket to ride. Photo: NPS. The story is essentially a protracted game of legal Ping-Pong: The Clinton administration served the ball when it ordered a phaseout of snowmobiles in Yell ...
Topics: Muckraker, national parks, placemaking, politics, West (all these topics)

What Blows Around Comes Around Cross-Border Pollution an Increasing Problem		17 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
What Blows Around Comes Around Cross-Border Pollution an Increasing Problem Pollution from Asia can taint the air along the West Coast of the U.S., said scientists on Friday at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Jet streams can drive dirty air across the Pacific Ocean in ...
Topics: ... air pollution, Asia, Atlantic Ocean, climate, European Union, Florida, North America, oceans, Pacific Ocean, pollution and waste, West (all these topics)

Natural Gas, Unnatural Allies Unlikely Coalition Opposes Bush's Plan to Drill in New Mexico		11 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Natural Gas, Unnatural Allies Unlikely Coalition Opposes Bush's Plan to Drill in New Mexico New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson (D) is leading an improbable coalition of enviros, ranchers, hunters, and property-rights activists in a fight against the Bush administration's plans to drill for natural gas in the Otero Mesa area of New Me ...
Topics: Bill Richardson, Department of Interior, elections, energy, New Mexico, oil and gas drilling, politics, West, wilderness (all these topics)

Shout, Trout, Let It All Out Western Hunters and Anglers Oppose Energy Bill		29 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Shout, Trout, Let It All Out Western Hunters and Anglers Oppose Energy Bill A group of outdoor enthusiasts descended on Washington, D.C., Wednesday to lobby against attempts by Republicans to revive the omnibus energy bill, defeated in the Senate last year. They object to provisions in the bill that would drastically increase oil ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, energy, marine life, outdoor recreation, political groups, politics, West, wildlife (all these topics)

Zinc Positive Supreme Court Sides With EPA in Clean Air Case		22 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Zinc Positive Supreme Court Sides With EPA in Clean Air Case A narrowly divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that the U.S. EPA has the authority to override state government decisions on what constitutes the "best available" anti-pollution technology. Enviros hailed the decision as a victory for clean air, while libertarian think tanks, a coali ...
Topics: air pollution, Alaska, environmental justice, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA, West (all these topics)

They're Going to Pump You Up Supreme Court to Review Two Important Environmental Cases		14 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
They're Going to Pump You Up Supreme Court to Review Two Important Environmental Cases In what court-watchers are calling an unusually in-depth review of environmental issues, the Supreme Court is set to hear two cases today with potentially nationwide implications for clean ...
Topics: ... energy, environmental justice, Florida, national parks, Northeast, placemaking, politics, pollution and waste, Southeast, toxics, West, wetlands (all these topics)

To Do Do Do, De Da Da Da Energy Execs Pay to Create Environmental 'To-Do' List with GOP Reps		08 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
To Do Do Do, De Da Da Da Energy Execs Pay to Create Environmental "To-Do" List with GOP Reps Business execs from power, coal, and mining companies are powwowing with more than a dozen GOP lawmakers from Western states this week in Phoenix, Ariz., at a conference focused on energy and environmental issues that boasts, among other activities, a session during which attendees can draw up a " ...
Topics: Arizona, business, political groups, politics, West (all these topics)

The Grazers' Edge Bush Administration Wants to Roll Back Grazing Rules		08 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
The Grazers' Edge Bush Administration Wants to Roll Back Grazing Rules You'd think Bush administration officials might want to spend their Friday afternoons planning happy hours or trying to sneak out of the office early, like normal people, but no: They like to spend their Friday afternoons quietly rolling back environmental protections, hoping that the news will get lost over the weekend. This past Frida ...
Topics: Department of Interior, politics, ranching, West (all these topics)

A Monumental Decision Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Challenge to National Monuments		07 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
A Monumental Decision Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Challenge to National Monuments The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a pillar of former President Clinton's environmental legacy yesterday when it refused to hear challenges to the creation of seven national monuments in five Western states. The Mountain States Legal Foundation, a conservative law firm, argued that Clinton overstepped the bounds of the 1 ...
Topics: Bill Clinton, politics, United States, West, wilderness (all these topics)

Wolf at the Door Enviros Sue Feds for Loosening Wolf Protections		02 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Wolf at the Door Enviros Sue Feds for Loosening Wolf Protections In an effort to make the western U.S. safe for gray wolves, 17 conservation groups teamed up yesterday to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for downgrading the species' status from endangered to threatened in April. The coalition argued that the Bush administration was wrong to remove federal protections from the wolves be ...
Topics: Oregon, politics, US Fish and Wildlife Service, West, wildlife (all these topics)

Dry Idea Rolls on		02 May 2003	Daily Grist
Dry Idea Rolls on The U.S. Interior Department has identified areas around the county that are likely to face conflicts over water shortages in the next 25 years, including the usual suspects (Los Angeles, Calif., Denver, Colo., and Phoenix, Ariz.) as well as some new hotspots: the Gulf Coast of Texas, North Dakota's Red River Valley, and Western cities from Bend, Ore. to Albuquerque, N ...
Topics: Department of Interior, rivers and watersheds, water pollution, West (all these topics)

Gutter Talk		21 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Gutter Talk The Bush administration has been discreetly gutting environmental protections by encouraging industry groups to sue over rules and then settling those lawsuits on terms favorable to industry, enviros argue. Using such tactics, the administration has allowed more logging in Northwest forests, curtailed protections for roadless lands and ...
Topics: Earthjustice, fishing, logging, national parks, Northwest, politics, water pollution, West, wilderness (all these topics)

Nuclear Falling-Out The feds are backing nuclear power -- in the name of the environment	Amanda Griscom	03 Apr 2003	Powers That Be
It's a long-held tenet of U.S. environmentalists that nuclear power is bad news. Critics argue that the clean-air benefits of nuclear reactors are far outweighed by the consequences of uranium mining and radioactive waste storage -- not to mention the damage that could result from an accident at an atomic power station. Now more than ever, with growing concern about terrorist at ...
Topics: mining and drilling, Nevada, nuclear power, politics, solid waste treatment and disposal, United Kingdom, United States, West (all these topics)

Wolf Downed		18 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Wolf Downed The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed changing the status of wolves in the Western U.S. from endangered to threatened, a move that could signal the eventual delisting of the species. Management of the wolves would then be turned over to Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming. The wolf was nearly extinct a half-century ago and was declared endangered in 47 of the lower 48 states in 1974. Recovery ef ...
Topics: US Fish and Wildlife Service, West, wildlife (all these topics)

Greenocide?		24 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Greenocide? A new phrase is raising hackles and fueling environmental debate in the Western U.S.: "rural cleansing." Thought to have been coined by a Washington-state property-rights activist, rural cleansing is taking root as a catchphrase for those who argue that eco-activists are trying to drive rural citizens away from traditio ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, food and agriculture, green living, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, West (all these topics)

Oakless Creek Canyon		19 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Oakless Creek Canyon Flagstaff, Ariz., is shaping up to be the testing grounds for the Bush administration's Healthy Forests initiative, a highly controversial effort to ease environmental reviews of logging projects on many Western public lands and ban reviews entirely in areas where forest fires could threaten human developments. Some 2,000 suburban Flagstaff homes are located just seven ...
Topics: Arizona, logging, politics, US Forest Service, West, wilderness (all these topics)

Wooda, Coulda, Shouldn't		13 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Wooda, Coulda, Shouldn't The U.S. Congress is readying to pass its catch-all domestic spending bill this week -- and with it, a provision that would give the timber industry responsibility for managing millions of acres of national forests throughout the West. Under the provision, which was added at the last min ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, business, land stewardship, logging, national parks, politics, Ted Stevens, US Forest Service, West, wilderness (all these topics)

Order in the Court		27 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Order in the Court With a staunchly anti-environmental White House and a Republican-dominated Congress, environmentalists are turning to the third branch of government to fight their cause. Happily, the courts have presented a relatively safe haven for greens, upholding strict clean air standards the Bush administration sought to water down, blo ...
Topics: air pollution, environmental justice, logging, national forests, politics, West, West Virginia, wilderness (all these topics)

Basin and Strange		17 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Basin and Strange Since Sept. 11, the Bush administration has claimed that strict environmental laws are hindering oil and gas exploration in the West -- thereby compromising national security by forcing ongoing dependence on foreign energy sources. But a new federal study undermines that claim by showing that most oil and gas reserves on Western federal lands co ...
Topics: Department of Interior, energy, mining and drilling, politics, West, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Range Bedfellows		16 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Range Bedfellows Energy exploration has been part of Western landscape and culture for decades -- but it seems the thrill of the drill may finally be wearing off. As the Bush administration pushes for further exploitation of Western resources (such as coal-bed methane mining in Wyoming and Montana an ...
Topics: Colorado, energy, food and agriculture, mining and drilling, Montana, New Mexico, North America, politics, ranching, renewable energy, West, Wyoming (all these topics)

Spotted Record		15 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Spotted Record Federal protections for the spotted owl and the marbled murrelet have been blamed by many in the anti-enviro camp for the collapse of the logging industry in the Pacific Northwest during the 1990s. Now, the Bush administration has announced that it will review those protections, as well as the designation of & ...
Topics: business, environmental justice, logging, Northwest, Pacific Northwest, politics, US Fish and Wildlife Service, West, wildlife (all these topics)

Yurok Me Like a Hurricane		07 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Yurok Me Like a Hurricane The Bush administration is to blame for last fall's die-off of 33,000 salmon along the Klamath River in Northern California, biologists from the state's Department of Fish and Game have determined. They say the fish kill -- the largest ever recorded in the West -- was the result of the administration's ...
Topics: California, fishing, food and agriculture, marine life, politics, rivers and watersheds, US Fish and Wildlife Service, West (all these topics)

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