No matter how much water it takes to cool a proposed nuclear power plant near Green River, Utah – the topic of thorny debate in an ongoing regulatory process — the specter of such a facility upwind and…
Tim DeChristopher, a University of Utah student who last December allegedly won 13 Bureau of Land Management oil and gas leases for $1.7 million he never intended to pay, came up with a unique defense in U.S. District in Salt…
Nothing says Wild West, summer road-trip, vacation with the kids quite like dipping a gold pan in a chilly Rocky Mountain stream, taking a burro ride along a dusty mining trail, or sifting for fool’s gold in a sluice box.…
A spike in uranium prices in recent years has sparked a mining-claim rush near a proposed Colorado wilderness area – a situation that would be exacerbated by a federal energy bill that may include nuclear power in a national renewable energy standard.
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar invoked both President Roosevelts — Teddy and FDR — in a speech celebrating the department’s 160th birthday at Interior headquarters in Washington Tuesday afternoon. “When faced with a crisis, Americans always build a path to progress,” Salazar said, according to prepared remarks released shortly before the hoopla kicked off.
Great Smoky Mountain National Park and the mountain range it protects were named for the natural fog that often enshrouds its peaks on the North Carolina-Tennessee border. But in recent years the nation’s most visited national park is called “Great Smoky” for another reason.
If the Bush Administration, the National Rifle Association (NRA) and 47 U.S. Senators get their way, you might be able to take a loaded gun into national parks and wildlife refuges. What does the National Park Service (NPS) manage?…
The Colorado congressional delegation has agreed on legislation that will designate 249.339 acres of Rocky Mountain National Park land as wilderness.
The proposal for the park wilderness was first made during the Nixon administration, and has taken about 30…
The U.S. Department of the Interior is planning to provide “provide up to $3 billion of new public and private investment to improve and expand national park conservation, preservation and visitor service programs by the National Park Service’s 100th birthday…
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