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Burton defends MMS record PDF Print E-mail
Written by DUSTIN BLEIZEFFER, Casper Star-Tribune   
Thursday, 08 July 2010
Former Minerals Management Service director Johnnie Burton says the spewing oil well in the Gulf of Mexico is a disaster that merits a world-wide effort to plug.

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Snowmaking opponents file for time PDF Print E-mail
Written by Arizona Daily Sun   
Wednesday, 07 July 2010
An attorney representing snowmaking opponents has asked a judge to temporarily prohibit construction at Arizona Snowbowl.

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Bill would limit monument efforts PDF Print E-mail
Written by MAGGIE BRIDGEMAN, Sacramento Bee   
Wednesday, 07 July 2010
Rep. Devin Nunes of Fresno has introduced a bill to limit the president's power to establish national monuments that he says would endanger the livelihoods of thousands of loggers, miners and farmers.

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Colorado rancher sues BP over open ditch on grazing allotment PDF Print E-mail
Written by DALE RODEBAUGH, Durango Herald   
Wednesday, 07 July 2010
Cows and ditches are not a good mix, says Bayfield rancher Ross Gosney.

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Agency Agreed Wildlife Risk From Oil Was ‘Low’ PDF Print E-mail
Written by LESLIE KAUFMAN, New York Times   
Tuesday, 06 July 2010
The federal agency charged with protecting endangered species like the brown pelican and the Kemp’s ridley sea turtle signed off on the Minerals Management Service’s conclusion that deepwater drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico posed no significant risk to wildlife, despite evidence that a spill of even moderate size could be disastrous, according to federal documents.

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As Oil Industry Fights a Tax, It Reaps Subsidies PDF Print E-mail
Written by DAVID KOCIENIEWSKI, New York Times   
Tuesday, 06 July 2010
When the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform set off the worst oil spill at sea in American history, it was flying the flag of the Marshall Islands. Registering there allowed the rig’s owner to significantly reduce its American taxes.

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Wyoming faces off with federal government over Grand Teton acres PDF Print E-mail
Written by MEAN GRUVER, Washington Post   
Tuesday, 06 July 2010
Majestic views of the Teton Range. Prime location for luxury resort, home development. Pristine habitat for moose, elk, wolves, grizzlies.

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E-mails: Interior officials involved in national monument 'brainstorming' PDF Print E-mail
Written by JOHN S. ADAMS, Great Falls Tribune   
Tuesday, 06 July 2010
An internal U.S. Department of the Interior document identifying 14 new sites for possible national monument designation was leaked to congressional Republicans earlier this year, giving some folks across the West flashbacks of President Bill Clinton's last days in office.

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Oil industry urges Wyoming to put CO2 to use, not sequester it PDF Print E-mail
Written by DUSTIN BLEIZEFFER, Casper Star-Tribune   
Thursday, 01 July 2010
Some people in the oil industry are miffed that the Wyoming Legislature allocated some $45 million in federal Abandon Mine Lands funds for a carbon sequestration project.

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Kootenai timber sales halted by grizzly bears PDF Print E-mail
Written by ROB CHANEY, Missoulian   
Thursday, 01 July 2010
Three Kootenai National Forest logging projects have been halted because they failed to properly analyze how the work would affect a dwindling population of grizzly bears there.

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Interior Dept. fines BP for falsifying records on Colorado tribal leases PDF Print E-mail
Written by KRISTEN WYATT, Casper Star-Tribune   
Thursday, 01 July 2010
The Obama administration has fined BP America $5.2 million for allegedly submitting false reports about energy production on an Indian reservation in Colorado.

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Montana city asks EPA to clean up 1989 diesel spill in Whitefish Lake PDF Print E-mail
Written by MYERS REECE, Flathead Beacon   
Wednesday, 30 June 2010
Last fall, a hunter in Whitefish Lake’s Mackinaw Bay stepped into the water and yanked his boot out of the lakebed’s muck. When he looked down, the water glimmered with an unmistakable petroleum-tinted sheen.

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BLM reverses drilling decision in Colorado's Vermillion Basin PDF Print E-mail
Written by DENNIS WEBB, Grand Junction Sentinel   
Wednesday, 30 June 2010
Gov. Bill Ritter and environmental and citizen groups are praising the Bureau of Land Management’s reversal of an earlier proposal to allow oil and gas development in the 77,000-acre Vermillion Basin northwest of Craig.

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NRC panel says administration can't dump Yucca Mountain application PDF Print E-mail
Written by MATTHEW L. WALD, New York Times   
Wednesday, 30 June 2010
In a setback for the Obama administration, a panel of judges at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ruled on Tuesday that the Energy Department could not withdraw its application to open a nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain in Nevada.

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Western governors discuss water, energy as meeting winds down PDF Print E-mail
Written by DAN TESTA, Flathead Beacon   
Wednesday, 30 June 2010
The annual conference of the Western Governors’ Association, meeting here to celebrate 100 years of its existence, provides state leaders with an amiable environment in which to discuss extraordinarily thorny problems.

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Arizona wildfire fully contained PDF Print E-mail
Written by Arizona Daily Sun   
Tuesday, 29 June 2010

The 3,420-acre Eagle Rock fire 11 miles northeast of Williams has been fully contained.

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Groups join Idaho nonprofit's challenge of sage grouse decision PDF Print E-mail
Written by Denver Post   
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
Environmental groups want a federal court to force the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to propose an endangered or threatened listing for the sage grouse.

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Groups challenge energy leases in roadless areas of Utah PDF Print E-mail
Written by JENNIFER DOBNER, Casper Star-Tribune   
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
Conservation groups are asking a judge to block oil and gas drilling around trout streams and in roadless forests of northern Utah.

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Antibiotics in Animals Need Limits, F.D.A. Says PDF Print E-mail
Written by GARDINER HARRIS, New York Times   
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
Federal food regulators took a tentative step Monday toward banning a common use of penicillin and tetracycline in the water and feed given cattle, chickens and pigs in hopes of slowing the growing scourge of killer bacteria.

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New dams proposed on Idaho's Boise River PDF Print E-mail
Written by ROCKY BARKER, Idaho Statesman   
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Idaho Water Resource Board are studying new water-storage dams on the Boise River, and are holding a series of public meetings about the study this week.

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