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Ruby pipeline agreements address sage grouse impacts PDF Print E-mail
Written by Casper Star-Tribune   
Thursday, 22 July 2010
An unprecedented partnership between the nation's leading interstate natural gas pipeline company and two conservation organizations will lead to sage grouse habitat protections for a planned natural gas pipeline

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BLM unveils new sage grouse maps PDF Print E-mail
Written by JEFF GEARINO, Casper Star-Tribune   
Thursday, 22 July 2010
Bureau of Land Management officials unveiled their proposed new maps of sage grouse core areas at a statewide open house kickoff Monday night

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Beetles take bite out of whitebark PDF Print E-mail
Written by MEAD GRUVER, Casper Star-Tribune   
Thursday, 22 July 2010
Whitebark pine trees in the Yellowstone area are dying at a rate approaching the acreage of all trees that burned in the region's vast 1988 wildfires, a researcher says.

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Lightning wallops 17 climbers on Wyoming's Grand Teton peak PDF Print E-mail
Written by CORY HATCH and ANGUS M. THUERMER JR., Jackson Hole News & Guide   
Thursday, 22 July 2010
Grand Teton National Park rangers rescued 16 climbers injured in a lightning storm on the 13,770-foot Grand Teton on Wednesday but had to call off the search for a 17th at dark.

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Chu launches department's first-ever blog PDF Print E-mail
Written by Greenwire   
Wednesday, 21 July 2010

The Department of Energy launched its first-ever blog yesterday, with Energy Secretary Steven Chu citing a desire to connect to the public in "new and creative ways."

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Wyo. ponders liability for coalbed methane ponds PDF Print E-mail
Written by DUSTIN BLEIZEFFER, Casper Star-Tribune/Greenwire   
Wednesday, 21 July 2010
A Wyoming rancher is interested in buying a piece of property from an energy company, including reservoirs of coalbed methane water at the site. But state regulators are unsure how to handle the transfer of legal liability for the ponds from a gas developer to a private landowner.
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Shale plays, depressed demand to keep U.S. prices low -- analysts PDF Print E-mail
Written by NATHANIAL GRONEWOLD, Greenwire   
Wednesday, 21 July 2010
U.S. natural gas prices will remain low for at least the next two years, restraining renewable energy supplies for years to come, according to energy analysts.
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Cleanup crews damaging critical habitat, critics say PDF Print E-mail
Written by CAIN BURDEAU, Houston Chronicle/AP/Greenwire   
Wednesday, 21 July 2010

The oil cleanup efforts, which employ a flotilla of 5,600 vessels, are causing environmental damage in a fragile ecosystem already affected by the spill, according to environmentalists and other experts.

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Forest Service shifts strategy to address rising temperatures PDF Print E-mail
Written by NOELLE STRAUB, Greenwire   
Wednesday, 21 July 2010
The Forest Service has issued a national road map for responding to climate change, along with a performance scorecard to measure how well each individual forest implements the strategy.
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EPA takes new look at gas drilling, water issues PDF Print E-mail
Written by MARC LEVY and MARY ESCH, Associated Press   
Wednesday, 21 July 2010
So vast is the wealth of natural gas locked into dense rock deep beneath Pennsylvania, New York, West Virginia and Ohio that some geologists estimate it's enough to supply the entire East Coast for 50 years.

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Program digs in against invasive trees PDF Print E-mail
Written by LINDA HALSTEAD-ACHARYA, Billings Gazette   
Wednesday, 21 July 2010
Several years ago, Russian olive trees kidnapped three bulls on 300 acres east of Park City.

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Group insists all work should come to a stop at Highwood power plant PDF Print E-mail
Written by KARL PUCKETT, Great Falls Tribune   
Wednesday, 21 July 2010

Work at Highwood Generating Station, a proposed power plant amidst farmland, should immediately stop in the wake of a 4-3 Supreme Court ruling last week that the county illegally spot-zoned the site to heavy industrial, critics of the project said.

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BLM rounds up 636 wild horses PDF Print E-mail
Written by ADELLA HARDING, Elko Daily Free Press   
Wednesday, 21 July 2010
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has gathered 636 wild horses so far in the Tuscarora roundup the agency resumed late last week after federal court approval, according to a BLM announcement Tuesday afternoon.

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Petition Seeks to Have Wolves Howl Across US PDF Print E-mail
Written by MATTHEW BROWN, Flathead Beacon   
Wednesday, 21 July 2010
Tens of thousands of gray wolves would be returned to the woods of New England, the mountains of California, the wide open Great Plains and the desert West under a scientific petition filed Tuesday with the federal government.

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Lawsuit blasts river cleanup plan PDF Print E-mail
Written by BRIAN WALKER, CDA Press   
Wednesday, 21 July 2010
Not so fast on the Spokane River pollution cleanup plan, say area agencies that discharge wastewater into the stream.

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Can CBM ponds change hands? PDF Print E-mail
Written by DUSTIN BLEIZEFFER, Casper Star-Tribune   
Wednesday, 21 July 2010
State regulators say they must answer some legal questions about how a landowner can assume liability for reservoirs that were built to dispose of coal-bed methane gas water.

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Company's disclosure decision could change fracking debate PDF Print E-mail
Written by MIKE SORAGHAN, Greenwire   
Tuesday, 20 July 2010
A Texas natural gas producer's decision to voluntarily disclose the chemicals it injects into the ground could prompt other drillers to do the same, and pave the way for regulators to require such disclosure.
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Mining group sues U.S. over mountaintop permit 'guidance' PDF Print E-mail
Written by PATRICK REIS, Greenwire   
Tuesday, 20 July 2010
The National Mining Association sued the Obama administration today over new water pollution "guidance" for coal companies seeking permits for surface mines in Central Appalachia.
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Cheese plant dramatically cuts nitrate in its waste PDF Print E-mail
Written by AMY HUDDLESTON, Twin Falls Times-News   
Tuesday, 20 July 2010
Glanbia Foods, one of the largest barrel cheese plants in the world, ships its products internationally to fast-food restaurants and fancy eateries.

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Palouse earthworm gets second look for protection PDF Print E-mail
Written by Spokane Spokesman-Review   
Tuesday, 20 July 2010
Already rejected once for endangered species protection, the giant Palouse earthworm has won a new study from the federal government after the first living specimens in decades were found.

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