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Group sues EPA over inaction on air pollution in 5 Western states

Written by CYNTHIA SEWELL, Idaho Statesman
Tuesday, 02 February 2010
The Center for Biological Diversity today filed a notice of intent to sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for failing to meet numerous deadlines for limiting dangerous pollution from tiny airborne particles like soot and dust in Idaho, Alaska, Arizona, Montana and Nevada. In some cases, the deadline for EPA action passed more than 10 years ago. Read more... Add Comment (0)

Banking on carbon

Written by PAUL FATTIG, Mail Tribune
Wednesday, 03 February 2010
Mike Gaudern acknowledges that the whole concept of marketing trees for their ability to draw and store carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is new to the Oregon woods. Read more... Add Comment (0)

Colorado takes public comment on new uranium mining rules

Written by MONTE WHALEY, Denver Post

Monday, 01 February 2010

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Colorado mining officials have released draft regulations aimed at tightening oversight of uranium mining operations in the state.

The proposed rules — the result of bills passed by the state legislature in 2008 — are open to public comment and a public hearing is scheduled in April.

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Signature gathering begins on Montana hunting initiative

Written by Great Falls Tribune
Monday, 01 February 2010
The struggle for access to public wildlife on private land in Montana may go to the ballot box in the form of a citizen's initiative that would abolish outfitter-sponsored nonresident big game licenses. Read more... Add Comment (0)

Obama's budget zeros out funding for Yucca Mountain

Written by STEVE TETREAULT, Las Vegas Review-Journal
Monday, 01 February 2010
President Barack Obama will propose eliminating funding for the Yucca Mountain Project in a new budget he will submit to Congress today, said Nevada lawmakers who were notified over the weekend. Read more... Add Comment (0)

Sheep dogs, mountain bikers and multiple use collide

Written by ARIANA BROCIOUS, High Country News
Friday, 29 January 2010
In the 30 years that Sam and Cheri Robinson have grazed sheep on the White River National Forest near Red Cliff, Colo., their livestock guard dogs have never been particularly aggressive. Read more... Add Comment (0)

Kicking and screaming, the BLM makes a deal

Written by JODI PETERSON, High Country News
Friday, 29 January 2010
It's taken much longer than it should have, but the world's longest outdoor art gallery will finally get some protection from the gas drilling that threatens it. Read more... Add Comment (0)

Colorado group urges protection of Hermosa Creek watershed

Written by DALE RODEBAUGH, Durango Herald
Friday, 29 January 2010
The Hermosa Creek watershed - 155,000 acres stretching from the north Animas Valley to just beyond Purgatory - deserves protection because of its sterling water quality and corresponding natural resources, including diverse flora and fauna and recreation, the River Protection Workgroup says. Read more... Add Comment (0)

Alaska village sues oil companies over climate-changing activities

Written by JOHN SCHWARTZ, New York Times
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
Tiny Kivalina, Alaska, does not have a hotel, a restaurant or a movie theater. But it has a very big lawsuit that might affect the way the nation deals with climate change. Read more... Add Comment (0)

Wyoming panel works to integrate wind power into transmission grid

Written by MATT JOYCE, Casper Star-Tribune
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
Transmission developers with plans to send Wyoming wind power to western states hungry for renewable energy are trying to figure out how to connect scattered wind farms with proposed export power lines. Read more... Add Comment (0)

Interior secretary earns reputation as 'sweeping reformer'

Written by MICHAEL RILEY, Denver Post
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
Somewhere just after 12:30 p.m. on a cold Wednesday this month, the image of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar as a Western pragmatist and wily political deal-maker evaporated in a cloud of heated rhetoric. Read more... Add Comment (0)

Idaho groups offer differing opinions on Endangered Species Act

Written by NATE POPPINO, Twin Falls Times-News
Tuesday, 26 January 2010
Westerners who gripe about the Endangered Species Act often have very clear ideas about how they’d change it. But actually making those changes is another matter entirely. The ESA is the very definition of a political hot potato, and there may not be much anyone can do to alter it anytime soon. Read more... Add Comment (0)

Montana congressman supports phased-in wilderness bill

Written by NICK GEVOCK, Montana Standard
Tuesday, 26 January 2010
U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg, R-Mont., said he will only support designating more wilderness in the state if it's phased in over 10 years and tied to getting more logging and restoration work done on the ground. Read more... Add Comment (0)

BLM releases EIS on Wyoming CO2-sequestration plant

Written by JEFF GEARINO, Casper Star-Tribune
Tuesday, 26 January 2010
Federal officials on Monday released their draft environmental study for a pioneering carbon sequestration project proposed for western Wyoming that could boost the state's burgeoning underground CO2 storage industry. Read more... Add Comment (0)

ExxonMobil, two others seek oil-shale leases

Written by DENNIS WEBB, Grand Junction Sentinel
Tuesday, 26 January 2010
The Bureau of Land Management received two applications in Colorado and one in Utah in its second offering of oil shale research and development leases, agency spokesman Matt Spangler said Monday. Read more... Check out The Promise & Peril of Oil Shale event being held in Denver Feb 5. Add Comment (0)

WildEarth Guardians want federal protection for Utah lizard, snail

Written by PATTY HENETZ, Salt Lake Tribune

Monday, 25 January 2010

Gila monster (Utah Division of Wildlife Resources)

Gila monsters -- poisonous, colorful, reclusive and a bad guy in a classic Western movie -- are dying off in Utah because of headlong growth and development in St. George and the rest of Washington County. The lizards must not go extinct and need federal protection, says WildEarth Guardians, a Southwestern conservation group that is blanketing the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) with petitions and lawsuits aimed at fending off biological annihilation.

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Wyoming group seeks innovative uses for beetle-killed timber

Written by BRIDGET MANLEY, Casper Star-Tribune
Monday, 25 January 2010
Take a trip to the Medicine Bow National Forest and you're likely to see red. A lot of it. Read more... Add Comment (0)

Nuclear power plant proposal in Utah sets of volley of questions

Written by CHRISTOPHER SMART, Salt Lake Tribune
Monday, 25 January 2010
A fledgling company's plan to build a 3,000 megawatt nuclear power plant near the Green River in eastern Utah is generating more questions than answers. Read more... Add Comment (0)

Endangered Species Act continues to evolve

Written by NATE POPPINO, Twin Falls Times-News
Monday, 25 January 2010
Idahoans today probably feel they know the Endangered Species Act pretty well. They see its face in the wolves that now roam their state’s backcountry, in the sockeye salmon that fight their way up Idaho’s rivers and in the bald eagles that gracefully soar near the Snake River Canyon. Read more... Add Comment (0)

Number of earthquakes in Yellowstone 'swarm' surpasses 900

Written by HOWARD PANKRATZ, Denver Post
Friday, 22 January 2010
The number of earthquakes experienced since Sunday at Yellowstone National Park has now risen to 901 with two of the strongest quakes occurring late Wednesday, according to scientists monitoring the situation. Read more... Add Comment (0)

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