AltWeeklies Wire
Mining Microbesnew
The National Park Service floats a proposal to share bioprospecting profits with the private sector, but should the commons be commercialized?
Missoula Independent |
John S. Adams |
10-12-2006 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Report? What Report?new
Why is the EPA's Office of the Inspector General playing hide-the-report with Libby?
Missoula Independent |
Paul Peters |
08-31-2006 |
Environment
Tags: environment
A Dangerous Lienew
Four men in the loop reveal what a buried EPA report says about the failed asbestos cleanup in Libby, Montana.
Missoula Independent |
Paul Peters |
07-27-2006 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Kill of the Wildnew
In Montana, a U.S. Forest Service proposal could change the very nature of the nation's wilderness areas.
Missoula Independent |
Jessie McQuillan |
07-13-2006 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Knocking Opportunitynew
Bordered by wasteland and marked as a dump, a small Montana town near the Clark Fork River’s headwaters fears the Milltown Dam cleanup could shut the door on its future.
Missoula Independent |
Jessie McQuillan |
10-06-2005 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Jumping the Cutnew
Even as Bitterroot National Forest officials continue taking comment on a controversial timber cut, they've already spent $160,000 toward enacting a plan that 98 percent of the public says it doesn't want.
Missoula Independent |
Jessie McQuillan |
09-22-2005 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Copper Giant Bails Outnew
Asarco, the mining company responsible for the cleanup of environmental messes across the West, files for chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Missoula Independent |
John S. Adams |
08-19-2005 |
Environment
Tags: Asarco
Current Dangernew
Montana's Blackfoot River -- of A River Runs Through It fame -- is threatened by the crumbling Mike Horse dam. Again.
Missoula Independent |
John S. Adams |
06-03-2005 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Living with Falloutnew
Although a new study found that 15 Montana counties received some of the nation’s highest doses of fallout following Nevada’ nuclear tests in the 1950s, Montanans aren’t included in the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act.
Missoula Independent |
Jessie McQuillan |
05-13-2005 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Bison Range Reversalsnew
Critics of a groundbreaking agreement between the feds and the Confederated Salish Kootenai tribe to manage Montana's National Bison Range look north to Alaska, and find oil in the details.
Missoula Independent |
Brad Tyer |
10-29-2004 |
Environment
Unsanctioned Sicknessnew
With victim-compensation legislation stalled, and the science of asbestos-related disease uncertain, how does the federal government plan to "heal" Libby, Montana?
Missoula Independent |
Mike Keefe-Feldman |
09-09-2004 |
Environment
Methane Madnessnew
Montana Gov. Judy Martz insists that Canada assess the environmental impacts of coal bed methane drilling north of Glacier National Park. So why is she giving a pass to the same industry in her own backyard?
Missoula Independent |
Yogesh Simpson |
08-26-2004 |
Environment
Is B.C. Jeopardizing Glacier to Pay for the Olympics?new
British Columbia sees drilling in Elk Valley as a source of revenue. But with it comes with the possibility of impacting watersheds in Montana, including some in Glacier National Park, with increased salt or metal levels.
Missoula Independent |
Mike Keefe-Feldman |
08-20-2004 |
Environment
Wilderness on Holdnew
Next month the Wilderness Act turns 40. Montana hasn't put it to use in two decades. Is it still relevant today?
Missoula Independent |
Mike Keefe-Feldman |
08-06-2004 |
Environment
