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Cally Carswell
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Cheap grass
Grazing fees aren’t exactly bringing home the bacon … er, beef … for the feds. As we pointed out earlier this year, in the past 40-plus years the fee to graze a cow and calf on public land has gone up a measly 12 cents: from $1.23 to $1.35. That increase hasn’t even come close […]
Posted inJune 7, 2010: One Tough Sucker
Limbo land: Brownfields for green energy
Renewable energy projects planned for contaminated lands
Posted inMay 24, 2010: Accidental Wilderness
For wilderness, look to a wasteland
Select DOD and DOE sites in the West
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Refinery blues
The Sinclair Wyoming Refinery’s clumsy environmental record continues to stumble: Last week, some 80 dead birds, most of them western grebes, were found in a wastewater pond laced with oil spilled from an undetermined source in the refinery. The accident is the latest in a spate of spills (see our story, “Sinclair flare up“) at […]
Posted inMay 10, 2010: The Secret Lives of River Guides
Urban habitat
Building an inner-city base hasn’t been easy for the Audubon Society
Posted inApril 26, 2010: Nevada's Pot of Gold
Sinclair flare up
Accident-prone refinery burdens Wyoming town
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Limiting Las Vegas
The conclusion of a new report by the Sonoran Institute—that Las Vegas’ water supply can’t keep up with its interminable appetite for growth—isn’t particularly surprising. But it is timely. The recent pummeling Las Vegas took from the recession presented the ballooning city with an opportunity to catch its breath. As the Las Vegas Sun puts […]
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Un-stimulated
It didn’t take a recession to bring hard times to California’s San Joaquin Valley. Consider these sobering statistics courtesy of the California Partnership for the San Joaquin Valley, a group convened by the governor in 2005 to bring the Valley’s limping economy up to speed: *Average per capita incomes are 32.2 percent lower than the […]
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All aboard the coal train
Very little is certain for ol’ King Coal these days. The numbers weren’t pretty last year. Coal production was down almost 8 percent in 2009, and consumption fell even further. Environmentalists are still fighting new coal-fired power plants tooth and nail—and winning. And the future of federal carbon regulation, which could have major implications for […]
