AltWeeklies Wire
The Ghosts of Valmont Buttenew
Ever since the city of Boulder purchased its Valmont Butte property, city taxpayers have been picking up the tab to pay for the environmental sins committed by more than a century’s worth of long-departed users at the site. And that tab may be getting bigger as more ghosts from the property’s past continue to reveal themselves.
Boulder Weekly |
Joel Dyer and Jefferson Dodge and Elizabeth Miller |
01-26-2012 |
Environment
Coal Train: Coming to Tracks Near Younew
With three proposed coal export terminals, Oregon is facing the prospect of over one mile long open-topped coal trains spewing diesel fumes and coal dust through its towns and into its forests, rivers and lakes. Will Oregon be the gateway for the fossil fuel exports Big Coal is looking for?
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
01-20-2012 |
Environment
Valero Working Overtime to Stop Climate-Change Legislationnew
Move over Koch Brothers, San Antonio's Valero Energy wants to keep the future oily.
San Antonio Current |
Robert Crowe |
01-18-2012 |
Environment
Tags: Valero, Oil industry
Behind the GMO Curtainnew
Big Ag threatens war on Boulder, Colorado.
Boulder Weekly |
Jefferson Dodge and Joel Dyer |
12-15-2011 |
Environment
Petro Statenew
Alberta's economy is dominated by oil and gas, but critics contend that it also dominates government policy.
Fast Forward Weekly |
Drew Anderson |
12-15-2011 |
Environment
Oil and Water: Will They Mix?new
With drillers starting test wells, fracking's uncertainties float to the surface.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Pam Zubeck |
12-15-2011 |
Environment
Fall of the Redwood Empirenew
Clearcutting for vineyards is nothing new in wine country. Can it be stopped?
North Bay Bohemian |
Alastair Bland |
12-12-2011 |
Environment
17,000 Species — and Countingnew
A project to identify every living thing in the Great Smoky Mountains has a lot to show for its first decade of work. But where does it go from here?
Metro Pulse |
Jesse Fox Mayshark |
11-22-2011 |
Environment
Congress Continues Attack on Coal Ash Regulationsnew
A U.S. Senate effort is underway to block more restrictive federal regulation of coal combustion and its byproducts.
NUVO |
Jill McCarty |
11-21-2011 |
Environment
Giant Duck Threatens to Bring ExxonMobil to Its Kneesnew
If ExxonMobil collapses by the end of the day into bankruptcy, with company executives begging for forgiveness for their polluting ways, all the credit should go to a giant inflatable duck.
Houston Press |
Rich Connelly |
11-15-2011 |
Environment
No Drought, No Water Bond for California?new
Now that California is flush with water, the passage of an $11 billion bond measure is in doubt.
East Bay Express |
Lance Williams |
10-31-2011 |
Environment
Natural-Gas Production Linked to Quakes in England, Arkansas, and Texasnew
Late last week, the region’s largest earthquake on record rattled the heart of South Texas oil and gas country, shaking the ground 47 miles southeast of San Antonio in Atascosa County and sending mild tremors as far north as Burnet.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
10-26-2011 |
Environment
Years After Chemical and Mold Exposures, ‘San Antonio Seven’ Still Sidelined by Illnessnew
Chronic pain. Chronic fatigue. Regular ER visits. Memory loss and confusion. Seizures.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
10-21-2011 |
Environment
Tags: san antonio seven
Uphill Battlenew
A proposed North Idaho wilderness area hangs on bureaucracy, politics and old habits.
Boise Weekly |
Zach Hagadone |
10-19-2011 |
Environment
The Legacy of the Poisoned Clark Forknew
Montana’s rivers, any fly-fisher will tell you, are everything a real river should be. Not the upper Clark Fork. Not yet, anyhow.
Missoula Independent |
Brad Tyer |
10-07-2011 |
Environment
