February 2008
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This is great news! BP drops Flathead coal-bed plan. By Michael Jamison. Missoulian. I recently did a story on the grave threat of these wells to the water, air and land in British Columbia just NW of Glacier National Park. The plans for the huge mountaintop coal mine (the Cline Mine) remain, however. Here is…
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“Wild Bill” has a good opinion piece on this. As I said earlier, this was an issue created for the election. It is not from the grassroots . . . . “This amendment and, it seems, most other gun legislation, isn’t about guns or the Second Amendment. It’s all about politics, and the gun lobby…
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Pythons could squeeze lower third of USA. USA Today. By Elizabeth Weise
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Corn ethanol production not only fails to produce much net energy, it is depleting water supplies. Ethanol Boom Saps Water in the West. By Jim Moscou. Newsweek Web Exclusive
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“If a wolf turns up in Rocky Mountain National Park, it will be protected by the Endangered Species Act. But plans by the Bush administration to remove ESA protection from Yellowstone’s wolves could make it incredibly hard for the predators to migrate down to Colorado.” The above is from an article on delisting in National…
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This was a fairly strong quake. I felt it for about 10 seconds at my home in Pocatello, Idaho. That is in SE Idaho Northeastern Nevada Hit by 6.0 Quake. AP (with a photo of damage) Update: Nevada earthquake ripples through Treasure Valley [Idaho]. More than a dozen aftershocks were reported Thursday from a 6.0-magnitude…
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Below is the news release. These folks seem to win or make a favorable settlement on a lawsuit almost every day. Ralph Maughan —————— For Immediate Release, February 21, 2008Contacts: Lisa Belenky, Center for Biological Diversity, (415) 385-5694 (cell) Katie Fite, Biodiversity Director, Western Watersheds Project, (208) 429-1679 Mark Salvo, Director, Sagebrush Sea Campaign, WildEarth…
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Here is the link to the final delisting rule published today.