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Colorado's new oil, gas rules now apply to federal lands PDF Print E-mail
Written by JUDITH KOHLER, Denver Post   
Thursday, 02 July 2009
Colorado's new oil and gas rules, denounced by the industry as the most burdensome in the country, now apply to federal land as well as private and state land.

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Montana wildlife agents catch grizzly bear near Missouri River PDF Print E-mail
Written by KARL PUCKETT, Great Falls Tribune   
Thursday, 02 July 2009
A young grizzly that journeyed from the Rockies to prairie ranches was captured late Tuesday near Loma, but wildlife authorities predicted it won't be the last bear to check out life on the plains, where bears used to thrive.

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Wyoming's carbon dioxide emissions give oil a boost PDF Print E-mail
Written by DUSTIN BLEIZEFFER, Casper Star-Tribune   
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
If Wyoming one day achieves commercial-scale carbon capture and storage development, it may have oil to thank for it.

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Federal solar-study plan includes 21,000 acres in Colorado PDF Print E-mail
Written by MARK JAFFE, Denver Post   
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
The federal government is carving out public land in Colorado and five other Western states for fast-tracked development of commercial solar power plants, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Monday.

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Salazar signs order to fast-track solar-energy projects PDF Print E-mail
Written by JULIE CART, Los Angeles Times   
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
The Obama administration on Monday announced that it would put solar energy development in the West on a fast track, with Interior Secretary Ken Salazar signing an order that sets aside more than 1,000 square miles of public land for two years of study and environmental reviews.

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Montana FWP agents on the hunt for grizzly bear near Fort Benton PDF Print E-mail
Written by Great Falls Tribune   
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
An adult grizzly bear spotted north of Fort Benton Sunday sauntered along the Teton River into Loma this morning, killing a sheep before presumably taking a nap.

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Rocky Mountain Power takes Utah town to court over power line PDF Print E-mail
Written by STEVEN OBERBECK, Salt Lake Tribune   
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
Rocky Mountain Power said Monday it will go to court to try to force the town of Willard to allow it to build a high-voltage transmission line through the city despite concerns that electric and magnetic fields from the project could harm the health of nearby residents and damage property values.

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Beetle-killed timber changes fire dynamics in the West PDF Print E-mail
Written by KIRK JOHNSON, New York Times   
Monday, 29 June 2009
Summer fire seasons in the great forests of the West have always hinged on elements of chance: a heat wave in August, a random lightning strike, a passing storm front that whips a small fire into an inferno or dampens it with cooling rain.

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U.S. turns its attention to saving the unlovely species as well PDF Print E-mail
Written by DAVID A. FAHRENTHOLD, Washington Post   
Monday, 29 June 2009
When it began compiling lists of threatened and endangered animals and plants more than 35 years ago, the U.S. government gave itself the same mandate as Noah's Ark: Save everything.

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Law change makes capturing rainwater in Colorado legal PDF Print E-mail
Written by KIRK JOHNSON, New York Times   
Monday, 29 June 2009
For the first time since territorial days, rain will be free for the catching here, as more and more thirsty states part ways with one of the most entrenched codes of the West.

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EPA says Monsanto mine in Idaho in violation since 2002 PDF Print E-mail
Written by JOHN MILLER, Idaho Statesman   
Friday, 26 June 2009
Federal regulators say an Idaho mine that Monsanto Co. depends on to make its Roundup weed killer has violated federal and state water quality laws almost since it opened, sending selenium and other heavy metals into the region's waterways.

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USFWS, Western Watersheds agree to new grouse deadline PDF Print E-mail
Written by NATE POPPINO, Twin Falls Times-News   
Friday, 26 June 2009
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service may not announce its decision on whether greater sage grouse should be listed as endangered until Feb. 26, 2010, a delay negotiated with the plaintiff, Hailey-based Western Watersheds Project, in the court case that prompted the listing review.

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Farm lobby at the helm of Waxman-Markey bill PDF Print E-mail
Written by Los Angeles Times   
Friday, 26 June 2009
Conspiracy theorists point to an assortment of groups they think secretly run the country -- the gun lobby, Big Oil, the New World Order and even Yale's Skull and Bones society have all been fingered as the shadowy Illuminati who rule Washington. Yet the nation's real power brokers are in plain sight, amid amber waves of grain: the farmers.

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BLM auctions Utah leases, then suspends them PDF Print E-mail
Written by PAUL FOY, Denver Post   
Wednesday, 24 June 2009
In another high-profile reversal, the federal Bureau of Land Management decided immediately after a lease auction Tuesday to suspend the sale of all 31 oil and gas drilling parcels purchased over concerns that they overlap with prime wildlife habitat across Utah.

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Lawsuit challenges USFWS' decision on Preble's mouse PDF Print E-mail
Written by BOB MOEN, Casper Star-Tribune   
Wednesday, 24 June 2009
A coalition of environmental groups filed a lawsuit Tuesday over the federal government's decision to protect a mouse in Colorado but not in Wyoming.

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National parks ordered to come up with emissions plan PDF Print E-mail
Written by PHUONG LE, Seattle Times   
Wednesday, 24 June 2009
Karen Lasch and her family recently pulled over their car near a glacier-fed creek in Mount Rainier National Park, piling out for a glimpse of the snowcapped peak in the distance.

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Idaho judge sends water rights decision back to DWR director PDF Print E-mail
Written by NATE POPPINO, Twin Falls Times News   
Wednesday, 24 June 2009
Idaho Department of Water Resources Director Dave Tuthill improperly handled parts of a water call dealing with seasonal variations in Snake River Canyon springs and "replacement water plans" approved without hearings, a 5th District judge has concluded.

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Utah will appeal foreign nuclear waste ruling PDF Print E-mail
Written by JUDY FAHYS, Salt Lake Tribune   
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
Utah is joining the fight to stop EnergySolutions Inc. from burying large volumes of foreign radioactive waste in its Tooele County landfill.

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Montana forester: Beetle-killed trees at risk of 'barnburner' wildfire PDF Print E-mail
Written by CHARLES S. JOHNSON, Missoulian   
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
State Forester Bob Harrington warned Monday that the pine trees damaged and killed by beetles could provide fuel for major fires here this year.

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FERC issues draft EIS on Wyoming's Ruby Pipeline project PDF Print E-mail
Written by DUSTIN BLEIZEFFER, Casper Star-Tribune   
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has issued a draft environmental impact statement for the proposed Ruby Pipeline project -- a significant step in expanding Wyoming's natural gas export capacity to the West Coast.

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