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Written by Billings Gazette
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Tuesday, 08 December 2009 |
One of most stirring symbols of the American West — mustangs thundering freely across the range — could be heading east.
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Written by MEAD GRUVER, Casper Star-Tribune
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Tuesday, 08 December 2009 |
A beetle epidemic that's killing trees across the Rocky Mountain region has taken an especially heavy toll on whitebark pine trees in the Yellowstone ecosystem, according to preliminary findings of a recent aerial survey.
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Written by KARL PUCKETT, Great Falls Tribune
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Tuesday, 08 December 2009 |
In response to the direction the EPA is taking on CO2, the state Department of Environmental Quality will propose to the state Board of Environmental Review on Friday a new rule setting carbon dioxide emissions limits for the first time in Montana.
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Written by STEVEN MUFSON and DAVID A. FAHRENTHOLD, Washington Post
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Tuesday, 08 December 2009 |
The Obama administration moved closer Monday to issuing regulations on greenhouse gases, a step that would enable it to limit emissions across the economy even if Congress does not pass climate legislation.
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Written by DERRICK Z. JACKSON, Boston Globe
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Monday, 07 December 2009 |
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In a critical demonstration of backbone on global warming, the Obama administration yesterday declared carbon dioxide a dangerous pollutant. Saying the country “will not ignore science and the law any longer,’’ Lisa Jackson, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, said her findings and declaration “cement 2009’s place in history as the year when the United States government began addressing the challenge of greenhouse gas pollution.’
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Written by IAN TALLEY, Wall Street Journal
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Monday, 07 December 2009 |
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, as expected, on Monday declared greenhouse gases a danger to public health, a decision that could soon lead to new emissions regulations for businesses across the economy.
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Written by ANDREW C. REVKIN, New York Times
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Monday, 07 December 2009 |
Just two years ago, a United Nations panel that synthesizes the work of hundreds of climatologists around the world called the evidence for global warming “unequivocal.”
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Written by ERIC NEWHOUSE, Great Falls Tribune
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Monday, 07 December 2009 |
The Blackfeet Tribe signed its third major oil exploration agreement, the largest in the tribe's history, Oil and Gas Manager Grinnell Day Chief said Friday.
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Written by BRETT FRENCH, Billings Gazette
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Monday, 07 December 2009 |
Greater sage grouse face a variety of threats, but one of them isn’t hunting, according to the most comprehensive research on sage grouse ever compiled.
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Written by SUSAN MONTOYA-BRYAN,
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Monday, 07 December 2009 |
A decade has passed since the federal government began returning endangered Mexican wolves to their historic range in the Southwest. It hasn't worked out -- for the wolves, for ranchers, for conservationists or for federal biologists.
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Written by MATTHEW DALY and SHANNON DININNY, Seattle Times
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Monday, 07 December 2009 |
A federal program that began as a safety net for Pacific Northwest logging communities hard-hit by battles over the spotted owl in the 1990s has morphed into a sprawling entitlement - one that ships vast amounts of money to states with little or no historic connection to timber, an analysis by The Associated Press shows.
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Written by LINDA HALSTEAD-ACHARYA, Billings Gazette
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Friday, 04 December 2009 |
A Bozeman company has filed applications with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for a preliminary permit to proceed with feasibility studies of hydropower projects on East and West Rosebud river.
Learn about commenting on this proposal from Red Lodge
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Written by JUDY FAHYS, Salt Lake Tribune
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Friday, 04 December 2009 |
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The long battle to bring national recognition to Nine Mile Canyon took a significant step forward this week when 63 rock art sites were officially added to the National Register of Historic Places.
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Written by KARL PUCKETT, Great Falls Tribune
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Friday, 04 December 2009 |
A new survey by a Colorado-based pollster, commissioned by the Wilderness Society, found that Montanans favor, by a 3 to 1 margin, a Rocky Mountain Front conservation plan that includes more wilderness.
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Written by STEVEN MUFSON, Washington Post
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Thursday, 03 December 2009 |
The first time Chesapeake Energy tried to buy mineral rights from Diana Whitmore, a 74-year-old retired real estate broker in southern New York, it offered her $125 for every acre of land plus a 12 percent royalty on whatever natural gas it extracts.
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Written by STEVEN GREENHOUSE, New York Times
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Thursday, 03 December 2009 |
President Obama, both during his campaign and in his first year in office, has promoted the promise of new jobs in cutting-edge, nonpolluting industries, and such green jobs will be a major issue at his jobs “summit” meeting Thursday.
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Written by JIM TANKERSLEY and ALEXANDER C. HART, Los Angeles Times
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Thursday, 03 December 2009 |
Citing e-mails that critics say cast doubt on global warming, congressional Republicans called on the Obama administration Wednesday to suspend efforts to combat climate change until the controversy is resolved.
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Written by MARK JAFFE, Denver Post
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Thursday, 03 December 2009 |
Colorado cannot meet its 2020 targets of 20 percent renewable energy and a 20 percent cut in greenhouse-gas emissions from utilities without building additional transmission lines, according to a new state study.
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Written by DEB COURSON, NewWest.net
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Thursday, 03 December 2009 |
Three critters in the Northern Rockies are featured on a new list of species most at risk of extinction because of a changing climate that affects habitat, breeding cycles and food supplies. Salmon, Canada lynx and grizzly bears are singled out in the report “America’s Hottest Species,” released by the Endangered Species Coalition.
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Written by JEREMY PELZER, Casper Star-Tribune
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Thursday, 03 December 2009 |
After a year-long review process, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Wednesday that the black-tailed prairie dog should not be listed as an endangered or threatened species.
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