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Chairwoman of the Boardwalk		22 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Chairwoman of the Boardwalk The U.S. National Wildlife Refuge System could get a $56.5 million budget increase in the next fiscal year, according to an announcement made yesterday by Interior Secretary Gale Norton. The proposed increase would represent an 18 percent budget hike and would be earmarked for maintenance and renovation of such features as boardwalks, trails, and levies. Although it ...
Topics: Department of Interior, energy, mining and drilling, wildlife (all these topics)

Fire, Fire, Fire, Fire		16 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Fire, Fire, Fire, Fire Fires that rage in thousands of underground coal seams around the world are polluting the air and releasing millions of tons of carbon dioxide, the major greenhouse gas. Although coal fires occur naturally from spontaneous combustion, scientists say the frequency of such fires has risen as mining has exposed coal deposits to mo ...
Topics: air pollution, China, climate, energy, mining and drilling, ozone, pollution and waste, United States (all these topics)

Oil the Way		15 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Oil the Way California Gov. Gray Davis (D) reiterated his opposition to offshore oil drilling in his state yesterday and vowed he would fight the Bush administration all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary to stop development of 36 drilling leases granted by the federal government. Because of a moratorium imposed by the first President Bush, most new oil ...
Topics: air pollution, California, marine life, mining and drilling, oceans, politics, wildlife (all these topics)

Hi Ho Sterling, Away!		14 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Hi Ho Sterling, Away! If the Sterling Mining Company has its way, one of the continent's largest underground mines could soon be dug beneath the Cabinet Mountains of northwestern Montana, marking the first time that large-scale mining would take place beneath a federal wilderness area. Last month, federal and state officials granted the company a permit to ope ...
Topics: mining and drilling, Montana, US Forest Service, water pollution, West, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Methane to Their Madness		09 Jan 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: Bureau of Land Management, energy, mining and drilling, wildlife, Wyoming (all these topics)

Methane to Their Madness Coal bed methane extraction threatens Wyoming's Red Desert	Hal Clifford	09 Jan 2002	Main Dish
OREGON BUTTES, Wyo. Tom Bell remembers how plush the carpet was in Interior Secretary Stewart Udall's Washington, D.C., office. Bell spent time on his hands and knees there during the 1960s, poring over a large map while making the case for preserving Wyoming's Red Desert as a national pronghorn antelope refuge. The Pinnacles in the Red Desert. Photo: Erik Molvar, Biodiversity Associat ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, energy, land stewardship, mining and drilling, Wyoming (all these topics)

Physics Lab Tests Tensile Strength of Senator		03 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Physics Lab Tests Tensile Strength of Senator And from the other side of the aisle ... U.S. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.), normally thought of as environmentally friendly, is championing legislation to protect a mining company from any liability for environmental damage done in its 125 years of operating in the senator's home state. The company, Homestake Mining, plans to close its gold mine in Sou ...
Topics: mining and drilling, politics, South Dakota (all these topics)

Gwich'in to Drill?		10 Dec 2001	Daily Grist
Gwich'in to Drill? Some tribes and lawmakers are criticizing environmental groups for continuing to represent Native Americans in a simplistic, self-serving way as model caretakers of the Earth. David Lester, a Creek Indian and executive director of the Council of Energy Resources Tribes, says, "Environmentalists are using the Indians the way the French and English used Indians in the French ...
Topics: Alaska, Canada, energy, green living, mining and drilling (all these topics)

Daschling Through the Senate		06 Dec 2001	Daily Grist
Daschling Through the Senate U.S. Senate Democrats unveiled an energy bill yesterday that would place more emphasis on conservation and efficiency than the GOP alternative, while keeping the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge drill-free. Currently, about 2 percent of the country's electricity comes from renewable sources; the new bill would require the number to jump to 12 percen ...
Topics: Alaska, energy, mining and drilling, placemaking, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

ANWR Sedated		04 Dec 2001	Daily Grist
ANWR Sedated The latest attempt by U.S. Sen. Frank Murkowski (R-Alaska) to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling tanked yesterday when almost the entire Senate (including Murkowski!) voted against it. Working with Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.), Murkowski had hoped to tag the GOP energy bill and a separate anti-human-cloning bill on to an unrelated railroad retirement bill. Lott an ...
Topics: Alaska, energy, mining and drilling, politics (all these topics)

Zuni Day, Sweeping the Clods Away		03 Dec 2001	Daily Grist
Zuni Day, Sweeping the Clods Away The Zuni Pueblo tribe is joining forces with the Sierra Club, the Center for Biological Diversity, and other enviro groups to fight a utility's plans to strip-mine coal from 18,000 acres of state, federal, and private land in western New Mexico. The coalition says the mining would draw water from the Zuni Salt Lake, where the tribe extracts salt for religious purp ...
Topics: energy, mining and drilling, Sierra Club, water conflicts (all these topics)

Throwing Their Wait Around		28 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Throwing Their Wait Around Senate Democrats announced yesterday that they would not consider new energy legislation until next year, angering Republicans who had hoped to quickly finalize a plan favored by the Bush administration. The Bush plan, which would open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling and provide about $30 billion in tax breaks and subsidies to the oil, coal, gas, and nuclear industri ...
Topics: Alaska, energy, mining and drilling, politics (all these topics)

Drills and Chills	Suzy Becker	26 Nov 2001	Ha.

Topics: mining and drilling (all these topics)

Grateful Lakes		02 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Grateful Lakes In a move that pleased environmentalists but irked industry, the U.S. Congress voted yesterday to ban new oil and gas drilling in the Great Lakes for two years. The measure, which was part of a $24.6 billion federal energy and water bill, was passed overwhelmingly in both chambers despite President Bush's recent calls to tap into more domestic energy sources. Under the bill, states would b ...
Topics: energy, Great Lakes, mining and drilling, politics (all these topics)

A Friend of the Devil Is a Friend of Mines		26 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
A Friend of the Devil Is a Friend of Mines An announcement by the Bush administration yesterday that it would repeal a Clinton-era mining regulation pleased industry leaders but angered environmentalists. The regulation, which applies to hard-rock minerals such as gold, silver, and copper, allows the Interior secretary to veto new mines on federal lands if they threaten the well-being of communities or the envi ...
Topics: mining and drilling, politics, United States (all these topics)

Murky Outcome		24 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Murky Outcome In a decision that could have serious implications for the environment, U.S. Sen. Frank Murkowski (R-Alaska) announced this week that he will run for governor of his home state next year. Murkowski, a former banker, has been a senator for 21 years and is the ranking Republican on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. He has made enemies of environmentalists, especially through his t ...
Topics: Alaska, energy, mining and drilling, politics (all these topics)

Special K-O		22 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Special K-O Like the rest of the country, the town of Kellogg, Idaho, is at war. But this one is a civil war over the Silver Valley Superfund site, the legacy of a century of mining and smelting in the Coeur d'Alene River Basin. The U.S. EPA is poised to decide this week whether to expand the cleanup efforts from 21 square miles to 1,500 square miles, which would make Silver Valley the nation's larges ...
Topics: business, Idaho, mining and drilling, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Almost Heaving, West Virginia		12 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Almost Heaving, West Virginia Lawyers representing the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy and residents of Coalfield, W. Va., asked the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday to consider limiting mountaintop-removal coal mining. Instead of taking coal from mountains, mountaintop removal take the mountain from the coal by blasting away entire hilltops, which scars landscapes and fills streams with debris. A U.S. ...
Topics: energy, mining and drilling, politics, West Virginia (all these topics)

Not Sitting on Defense		03 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Not Sitting on Defense The U.S. Senate yesterday voted 99-0 to approve a $345 billion anti-terrorism defense bill, after voting 100-0 not to get sidetracked by amendments like one that would have opened up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to oil and gas drilling. Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) had proposed to add the entire GOP energy bill to the defense bill, but even he in effect voted again ...
Topics: Alaska, James Inhofe, mining and drilling, politics (all these topics)

Precedent of the United States		03 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Precedent of the United States A federal judge dismissed an effort by the timber industry and users of off-road vehicles (ORVs) to overturn former President Clinton's order to designate 328,000 acres of federal land in California's Sierra Nevada as Giant Sequoia National Monument. The plaintiffs challenged the 1906 Antiquities A ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, logging, mining and drilling, outdoor recreation, politics, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Zinc About What You're Trying to Do to Me		26 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
Zinc About What You're Trying to Do to Me A proposed zinc and copper mine in northern Wisconsin may have run into trouble last Friday when the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Sokaogon Chippewa have the right to regulate water quality on their reservation downstream from the mine site. The court rejected arguments by Wisconsin that it alone had the authority to establish water quality standar ...
Topics: mining and drilling, water pollution, Wisconsin (all these topics)

First Contami-Nations		25 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
First Contami-Nations Navajo activists plan to rally today and tomorrow against an energy bill before the U.S. Senate that would give $30 million to fund uranium mining on Navajo Nation lands in New Mexico. They say the mining would contaminate the drinking water of more than 15,000 people. Lori Goodman, spokesperson for Dine Citizens Against Ruining Our Environment, described the plan a ...
Topics: health, mining and drilling, New Mexico, politics, water pollution (all these topics)

Hard of Huron		17 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
Hard of Huron Michigan natural resources officials voted on Friday to lift a four-year moratorium on oil and gas drilling beneath Lakes Huron and Michigan. Supporters said the lake-bottom deposits would boost energy supplies in the U.S. while bringing the state royalty money that could be used to purchase public land. Critics said the risks of the drilling were too great, even th ...
Topics: Department of Natural Resources, Great Lakes, Michigan, mining and drilling (all these topics)

Jakarta Four: The Hearse		31 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Jakarta Four: The Hearse In a big victory for the Indonesian environmental group Walhi, an Indonesian court this week found that mining giant Freeport Indonesia had given false information to the country's parliament about a fatal mining accident last year and ordered the company to improve its toxic waste management. Four workers died in a landslide at the mine last year, but Free ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, Indonesia, mining and drilling (all these topics)

Rocky Mountain Low		15 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Rocky Mountain Low Hoping to give himself a green sheen, President Bush traveled to Rocky Mountain National Park yesterday to engage in trail work for a few minutes and talk about character. "There's a grand vision embodied in these mountains," he said. "And the vision is that we can teach our children right from wrong." He also criticized environmentalists who ...
Topics: elections, energy, logging, mining and drilling, politics, United States (all these topics)

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