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Reviving an Arizona native species is sometimes successful

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Written by SHAUN McKINNON, Arizona Republic
Monday, 19 July 2010
Slicing through the icy waters of Ord Creek, 9,000 feet above sea level on the Fort Apache Reservation, schools of olive-gold fish are writing a rare success story of bringing a native species back from the brink of extinction. Read more... Add Comment (0)

Group challenges feds over troubled species

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Written by SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN, Denver Post
Monday, 19 July 2010
In a few hideouts around the Southwest, the New Mexico meadow jumping mouse has a precarious foothold on survival. With its large hind feet and long tail, it can jump up to three feet high and swim to avoid predators, but it still faces other threats that could eventually lead to its extinction. Read more... Add Comment (0)

Some Denver waterways too contaminated for safe summer play

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Written by DRUCE FINLEY, Denver Post
Monday, 19 July 2010
The South Platte River and Cherry Creek deteriorate rapidly as they meander through the Denver area, picking up arsenic, ammonia and fecal contaminants at levels exceeding health standards by up to 50 times, the latest state and city data show. Read more... Add Comment (0)

MMS investigations of oil-rig accidents have history of inconsistency

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Written by MARC KAUFMAN, CAROL D. LEONING, and DAVID HILZENRATH, Washington Post
Monday, 19 July 2010
A year and a day before BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, crew members on a neighboring oil rig found themselves bracing for their own potential disaster. Read more... Add Comment (0)

BP Hopes to Keep Well Closed, but Seep Is Detected

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Written by HENRY FOUNTAIN, New York Times
Monday, 19 July 2010
After three days of encouraging pressure tests, a senior BP official said Sunday that the company’s recently capped well in the Gulf of Mexico was holding up and that BP now hoped to keep the well closed until it could be permanently plugged. But government officials were more skeptical and cited a new potential problem. Read more... Add Comment (0)

Sawmill woes hobbling attempt at beetle control, forester says

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Written by GARY HARMON, Grand Junction Sentinel
Monday, 19 July 2010
Efforts to clear Colorado’s national forests of bark-beetle-destroyed timber have been hampered by the troubles of the wood-products industry, the chief of the U.S. Forest Service said Friday. Read more... Add Comment (0)

BLM’s new boss in Utah

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Written by PATTY HENETZ, Salt Lake Tribune
Monday, 19 July 2010
Juan Palma, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s new state director for Utah, says he is ready for the hot public-lands debates waiting for him. Read more... Add Comment (0)

High court says rezoning for Great Falls power plant was illegal

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Written by KARL PUCKETT, Great Falls Tribune
Monday, 19 July 2010
A closely divided Montana Supreme Court on Friday ruled that Cascade County in 2008 illegally rezoned 668 acres of land where Southern Montana Electric Generation & Transmission recently began construction of a natural-gas-fired power plant, calling the move special legislation and spot-zoning. Read more... Add Comment (0)

Nevada roundup of wild horses in need of water resumes

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Written by MARTIN GRIFFITH, Washington Post
Monday, 19 July 2010
Federal land managers have removed about 250 more wild horses from a Nevada range after a judge allowed a controversial roundup of the animals to resume. Read more... Add Comment (0)

Economywide carbon cap reduces GDP by 0.2%

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Written by MIKE SORAGHAN, JOSH VOORHEES and KATHERINE LING, Greenwire
Friday, 16 July 2010
The Senate's plan for an economywide carbon cap would probably reduce gross domestic product by 0.2 percent from 2013 to 2035, reducing household consumption by about $206 dollars a year, according to an Energy Information Administration analysis released today. Add Comment (0)
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Chevron asked for account of Utah oil spill

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Written by DEREK JENSEN, Greenwire/Salt Lake Tribune
Friday, 16 July 2010
The state of Utah has asked Chevron to submit complete, full and truthful accounts of a Utah oil spill within 30 days, or else be faced with stiff civil penalties or criminal fines. Add Comment (0)
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More Bears Exploring the Valley’s ‘Burbs

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Written by MYERS REECE, Flathead Beacon
Friday, 16 July 2010
In Northwest Montana, wildlife officials believe late springtime snow followed by cold, wet weather has kept grizzly and black bears at lower elevations for a longer period of time this summer. Read more... Add Comment (0)

Oregon trims tax credits for residential solar panels

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Written by RICHARD REED, Oregonian
Friday, 16 July 2010
Gone are the days when you could pay $650 for a $13,000 solar system installed on your roof. Read more... Add Comment (0)

BP Says Oil Flow Has Stopped as Cap Is Tested

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Written by CAMPBELL ROBERTSON and HENRY FOUNTAIN, New York Times
Friday, 16 July 2010
BP said Thursday that it had capped its hemorrhaging well, at least temporarily, marking the first time in 86 days that oil was not gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. Read more... Add Comment (0)

Judge: Horse rescue needed

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Written by MARTIN GRIFFITH, Reno Gazette-Journal
Friday, 16 July 2010
A federal judge in Reno on Thursday said he intends to reject a temporary restraining order sought by animal-rights activists to halt a wild horse roundup in Northern Nevada after 13 mustangs died. Read more... Add Comment (0)

U.S. Forest Service upholds denial of Crested Butte resort expansion

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Written by Denver Post
Thursday, 15 July 2010
The head of the U.S. Forest Service has affirmed two previous agency decisions denying Crested Butte Mountain Resort's plans to expand lift- served ski terrain onto neighboring Snodgrass Mountain. Read more... Add Comment (0)

EnergySolutions dumps Italian waste bid for Utah

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Written by JUDY FAHYS and THOMAS BURR, Salt Lake Tribune
Thursday, 15 July 2010
EnergySolutions Inc. announced Wednesday it is dropping plans to import significant quantities of foreign radioactive waste for disposal in Utah. Read more... Add Comment (0)

Two more companies drop oil interests in Flathead

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Written by Great Falls Tribune
Thursday, 15 July 2010
Two more American companies have agreed to retire their interest in oil leases in the North Fork watershed of Montana’s Flathead River at no cost to U.S. taxpayers, U.S. Sen. Max Baucus and U.S. Sen. Jon Tester of Montana announced Wednesday. Read more... Add Comment (0)

Montana Ramps Up Aquatic Invasive Species Program

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Written by MYERS REECE, Flathead Beacon
Thursday, 15 July 2010
Boaters can expect more checkpoints and reminders calling on them to inspect, clean and dry their watercrafts this summer, as Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks and the Department of Agriculture ramp up their fight against aquatic invasive species. Read more... Add Comment (0)

EPA reveals upper basin plan

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Written by ALECIA WARREN, CDA Press
Thursday, 15 July 2010
Everyone deserves a home free of mining waste. That means birds and fish, too. Read more... Add Comment (0)

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