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Opponents of wild-horse plan speak out at Nevada meeting PDF Print E-mail
Written by Billings Gazette   
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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Loss of Yellowstone-area whitebark pines could affect grizzlies PDF Print E-mail
Written by MEAD GRUVER, Casper Star-Tribune   
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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Montana DEQ to propose limits on CO2 emissions PDF Print E-mail
Written by KARL PUCKETT, Great Falls Tribune   
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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EPA edges toward regulating greenhouse gases PDF Print E-mail
Written by STEVEN MUFSON and DAVID A. FAHRENTHOLD, Washington Post   
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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Finally, US leads on environment PDF Print E-mail
Written by DERRICK Z. JACKSON, Boston Globe   
Monday, 07 December 2009
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.’

 
EPA Declares Greenhouse Gases a Danger PDF Print E-mail
Written by IAN TALLEY, Wall Street Journal   
Monday, 07 December 2009
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.

 
Skepticism on climate change rises before Copenhagen talks PDF Print E-mail
Written by ANDREW C. REVKIN, New York Times   
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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Blackfeet Tribe in Montana signs largest oil deal ever PDF Print E-mail
Written by ERIC NEWHOUSE, Great Falls Tribune   
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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Study: Sage grouse face slate of threats in the West PDF Print E-mail
Written by BRETT FRENCH, Billings Gazette   
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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USFWS seeks new accord in N.M., Ariz., wolf reintroduction program PDF Print E-mail
Written by SUSAN MONTOYA-BRYAN,   
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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More states get slice of federal timber payments to counties PDF Print E-mail
Written by MATTHEW DALY and SHANNON DININNY, Seattle Times   
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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Montana company seeks FERC approval for hydroelectric dams PDF Print E-mail
Written by LINDA HALSTEAD-ACHARYA, Billings Gazette   
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.

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National registry lists rock art sites in Utah's Nine Mile Canyon PDF Print E-mail
Written by JUDY FAHYS, Salt Lake Tribune   
Friday, 04 December 2009

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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Montana poll finds much support for Rocky Mountain Front plan PDF Print E-mail
Written by KARL PUCKETT, Great Falls Tribune   
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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Natural gas from shale surges into the U.S. energy market PDF Print E-mail
Written by STEVEN MUFSON, Washington Post   
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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U.S. effort on renewable energy lurches along PDF Print E-mail
Written by STEVEN GREENHOUSE, New York Times   
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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GOP lawmakers ask EPA to suspend climate-change efforts PDF Print E-mail
Written by JIM TANKERSLEY and ALEXANDER C. HART, Los Angeles Times   
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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Study: Colorado can't meet green goals without transmission lines PDF Print E-mail
Written by MARK JAFFE, Denver Post   
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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Northern Rockies species make 'hot list' PDF Print E-mail
Written by DEB COURSON, NewWest.net   
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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USFWS declines to list prairie dogs as threatened or endangered PDF Print E-mail
Written by JEREMY PELZER, Casper Star-Tribune   
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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