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Grace to the Bottom
W.R. Grace must pay to clean up asbestos mess in Montana, Supreme Court decides |
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11 Oct 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Grace to the Bottom W.R. Grace must pay to clean up asbestos mess in Montana, Supreme Court decides W.R. Grace & Co. must pay $54.5 million to remove asbestos-contaminated soil from the mining town of Libby, Mont., the Supreme Court decided yesterday. The U.S. EPA sued the company five years ago to recover cleanup costs; a lower court ruled in the agency's favor an ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, mining and drilling, Montana, news, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Cya-nara
State rejects attempt to repeal cyanide mining ban |
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03 Nov 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| Cya-nara State rejects attempt to repeal cyanide mining ban Voters in Montana decisively rejected Initiative 147, which would have repealed the state's 1998 ban on open-pit cyanide leach mining, a highly destructive and polluting gold-mining technique that extracts small amounts of gold and silver diffused through large amounts of rock. Some 98 percent of the money behind the initiative, almost $3 million, ... |
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| Topics: mining and drilling, Montana, politics, toxics (all these topics) |
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All Quiet on the Rocky Mountain Front
Bush administration cancels plans to drill in Rocky Mountain Front |
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06 Oct 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| All Quiet on the Rocky Mountain Front Bush administration cancels plans to drill in Rocky Mountain Front The Bush administration announced yesterday that it will suspend plans to drill for oil and gas in Montana's beloved Rocky Mountain Front pending a comprehensive study of the area -- a study that will not begin until 2007 and will last at least two years, taking the ultimate decision out of Bush's hands, even if h ... |
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| Topics: mining and drilling, Montana, politics (all these topics) |
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I'm on the Hunt, I'm After You
Bush Angers Hunters and Anglers by Promoting Resource Extraction |
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04 Nov 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| I'm on the Hunt, I'm After You Bush Angers Hunters and Anglers by Promoting Resource Extraction The Bush administration is ticking off many traditionally Republican hunters and anglers with its plans to encourage logging and oil and gas drilling in natural areas throughout the Western U.S. Last week, 450 U.S. gun clubs sent a petition to the U.S. F ... |
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| Topics: Alaska, logging, mining and drilling, Montana, national forests, outdoor recreation, politics, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Range Bedfellows
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16 Jan 2003 |
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| 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 ... |
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| Topics: Colorado, energy, food and agriculture, mining and drilling, Montana, New Mexico, North America, politics, ranching, renewable energy, West, Wyoming (all these topics) |
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Is That USGS or USBS?
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18 Dec 2002 |
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| Is That USGS or USBS? Here's some news to make you think twice about the reliability of government figures: The U.S. Geological Survey has announced that there is far more coal bed methane gas available in the Powder River Basin than previously thought -- while simultaneously acknowledging that the Rocky Mountain West contains far less oil than the agency had claimed in earli ... |
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| Topics: energy, mining and drilling, Montana, politics, US Geological Survey, Wyoming (all these topics) |
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