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Written by JUDITH KOHLER, Denver Post
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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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Written by KARL PUCKETT, Great Falls Tribune
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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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Written by DUSTIN BLEIZEFFER, Casper Star-Tribune
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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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Written by MARK JAFFE, Denver Post
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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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Written by JULIE CART, Los Angeles Times
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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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Written by Great Falls Tribune
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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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Written by STEVEN OBERBECK, Salt Lake Tribune
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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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Written by KIRK JOHNSON, New York Times
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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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Written by DAVID A. FAHRENTHOLD, Washington Post
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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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Written by KIRK JOHNSON, New York Times
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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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Written by JOHN MILLER, Idaho Statesman
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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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Written by NATE POPPINO, Twin Falls Times-News
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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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Written by Los Angeles Times
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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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Written by PAUL FOY, Denver Post
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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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Written by BOB MOEN, Casper Star-Tribune
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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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Written by PHUONG LE, Seattle Times
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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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Written by NATE POPPINO, Twin Falls Times News
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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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Written by JUDY FAHYS, Salt Lake Tribune
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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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Written by CHARLES S. JOHNSON, Missoulian
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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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Written by DUSTIN BLEIZEFFER, Casper Star-Tribune
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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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