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Written by STEVE LIPSHER, The Denver Post
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Thursday, 08 May 2008 |
A Rocky Mountain National Park wilderness protection bill was reported out of a U.S. Senate committee Wednesday after lawmakers reached a compromise over liability protection for an irrigation ditch running through the park.
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Written by MARK HAVNES, The Salt Lake Tribune
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Thursday, 08 May 2008 |
CEDAR CITY - Critics of the proposed Lake Powell pipeline are scratching their noggins over this one: If the $800 million-plus project primarily is about delivering water to a thirsty but growing southwestern Utah, why are federal energy regulators overseeing the approval process?
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Written by CHRIS MERRELL, Star-Tribune
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Thursday, 08 May 2008 |
With more than 1,500 wolves now roaming the Northern Rockies, there are five times the original goal stated in the federal government's 1994 wolf recovery plan. But a coalition of conservation and animal rights groups is trying to convince a federal judge that 1,500 wolves is not enough -- that the animals should be put back on the federal endangered species list until the population grows by at least another 33 percent, and state management plans are put in place to maintain that level.
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Written by NOELLE STRAUB, Star-Tribune
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Thursday, 08 May 2008 |
WASHINGTON -- Despite protests by some senators worried about world energy production, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee approved a bill Wednesday putting 1.2 million acres of the Wyoming Range off-limits to future oil and gas production.
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Written by MATTHEW BROWN, Casper-Star Tribune
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008 |
HELENA, Mont. -- The Bureau of Reclamation said Tuesday it was cutting flows into Montana's Big Horn River because of a later-than-expected spring runoff. State officials warned the move would harm the river's renowned trout fishery.
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Written by COLLIN SULLIVAN, ClimateWire
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008 |
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Wallace Stegner, the chronicler of the American West, had a simple response when asked to explain the economics of California. "Water," he said famously. "It's about the water."
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Written by MATTHEW FRANK, New West
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008 |
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A 7,500-acre expanse of land in the Blackfoot Valley, holding working agricultural lands, wildlife habitat and tributaries crucial to spawning cutthroat and bull trout, has been protected for perpetuity with a conservation easement. |
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Written by ALLISON WINTER, E&ENews PM
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008 |
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Key farm bill negotiators are back in closed-door meetings today on Capitol Hill, but the White House is renewing its threat to veto the measure. |
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Written by The Santa Fe New Mexican
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Tuesday, 06 May 2008 |
BOISE, Idaho — French-owned energy services company Areva Inc. will build what it's said will be a $2 billion uranium enrichment facility near the eastern Idaho city of Idaho Falls, after winning tax concessions from the state Legislature meant to lure the plant to the region.
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Written by JEFF BARNARD, Associated Press
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Tuesday, 06 May 2008 |
The Bush administration yesterday issued its final court-ordered plans for making Columbia Basin hydroelectric dams and irrigation projects safe for endangered salmon.
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Written by ERIC BONTRAGER, Greenwire
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Tuesday, 06 May 2008 |
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A Colorado company will pay $9 million to repair damage done to Rocky Mountain National Park by a 2003 ditch failure, under a settlement that the National Park Service and Justice Department announced yesterday.
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Written by EVELYN SCHLATTER, High Country News
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Tuesday, 06 May 2008 |
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Four Western states could see big chunks of new wilderness -- roughly three-quarters of a million acres – thanks to a flurry of wilderness legislation. Three bills are now wending their way through Congress, and a fourth, designating the Washington State Wild Sky Wilderness, awaits President Bush’s expected signature.
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Written by PATRICK REIS, E&E News PM
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Tuesday, 06 May 2008 |
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Under pressure from environmentalists, local governments and Colorado lawmakers, the Bureau of Land Management has deferred leasing mineral rights on Canada lynx habitat in the Rio Grande National Forest until additional analysis is completed. |
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Written by WILLIAM McCALL, Associated Press
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Monday, 05 May 2008 |
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- For years, the sea lions lounging at the Bonneville Dam have had easy pickings from salmon waiting to go up fish ladders to upriver spawning grounds.
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Written by AP
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Monday, 05 May 2008 |
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GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) -- Colorado Sen. Wayne Allard has joined other Republican members of Congress in pushing for more domestic energy production by removing barriers to oil shale leasing in Colorado, Wyoming and Utah.
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Written by The Australian
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Monday, 05 May 2008 |
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A BRITISH mining company has caused uproar with plans to extract uranium from the Grand Canyon - prompting one official to ask how Britons would react "if an American company went to drill at Stonehenge".
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Written by ROBIN BRAVENDER, E&E Daily
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Monday, 05 May 2008 |
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The House Water and Power Subcommittee will hear testimony Thursday on a bill tackling a dangerous blockage in Colorado's Leadville Mine Drainage Tunnel.
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Written by ERIC BONTRAGER, E&E Daily
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Monday, 05 May 2008 |
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Four dozen public lands, national forests, water and historical bills are slated for markup in the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee this Wednesday, along with votes on nominees for two senior-level positions in the Energy and Interior departments.
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Written by ERIC BONTRAGER, E&E Daily
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Monday, 05 May 2008 |
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The Senate Interior Appropriations Subcommittee will hold a field hearing in Colorado today to discuss the mountain pine beetle infestation that has laid waste to millions of acres of trees across the West and how federal resources are being devoted to fight the epidemic.
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Written by APRIL REESE, Land Letter
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Thursday, 01 May 2008 |
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SANTA FE, N.M. -- On a triangular spit of land abutting the parking
lot of Ortiz Middle School, a prairie dog scouts for predators from the
rim of its burrow next to the school's sign, oblivious to the passing
traffic on busy Jaguar Drive.
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