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Dirty Business: How Unaccountable Bureaucrats Kill Clean Technology

Robert L. Cavnar | Posted 05.25.2012

Robert L. Cavnar

While we fight this battle against our own government for clean energy, we are being welcomed with open arms in Russia, China, Indonesia, and Australia, all who want our technology now.

Brewer Deals Surprise Blow

Reuters | Posted 05.15.2012

(Adds comment from Sierra Club) By Tim Gaynor and David Schwartz PHOENIX, May 14 (Reuters) - Arizona Governor Jan Brewer...

Tim DeChristopher Appealing Prison Sentence

AP | PAUL FOY | Posted 05.10.2012

DENVER (AP) — An environmental activist who disrupted an oil and gas auction for land near Utah's national parks did so in protest, bringing attenti...

Federal Fracking Regulations Cover Only A Sliver Of Land

Posted 05.09.2012

ProPublica's Lena Groeger Reports: Last week’s media coverage of the Obama administration’s newly-proposed fracking rules focused so heavily on...

Colorado Oil And Gas Land Lease Delayed

AP | Posted 05.03.2012

PAONIA, Colo. (AP) — The Bureau of Land Management is putting off plans to lease 30,000 acres for oil and gas development in Colorado's North Fork V...

WATCH: Round Up Of 'Heritage Burros' Outrages Animal Rights Activists

The Huffington Post | Cristina Costantini | Posted 04.19.2012

Animal rights activists in Southern California are speaking out against 'heritage burro' roundups, after discovering that the U.S. Bureau of Land Mana...

Is 'Over The River' Through The Woods?

Posted 03.28.2012

Christo's 'Over The River' project just took another step forward. On Tuesday, commissioners in Fremont County approved a permit for the fabric art pr...

Christo's 'Over The River' Pushed Back Again

Posted 02.22.2012

Fabric artist Christo is yet again pushing back the date for his "Over the River" project which proposes to hang 5.9 miles of aluminum coated fabric p...

Nevada BLM Chief: Employees Should Blow The Whistle On Mustang Abuses

AP | SCOTT SONNER | Posted 02.25.2012

RENO, Nev. (AP) — The head of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management in Nevada is appealing to agency employees to step up and blow the whistle on any a...

How The BLMs Biggest Ecology Study "Got It All Wrong"

AP | By MEAD GRUVER | Posted 12.01.2011

CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- An environmental group on Wednesday accused the U.S. Bureau of Land Management of neglecting science in favor of politics while the ...

'Over The River' Project Waiting On The Locals

AP | CATHERINE TSAI | Posted 01.07.2012

DENVER — Federal land managers announced a final decision Monday approving Christo's art proposal to suspend 5.9 miles worth of silvery, translu...

Wild Horse Policy Scrutinized In Wyoming

AP | By MEAD GRUVER | Posted 11.12.2011

EDEN, Wyo. -- The mares received the equine equivalent of the pill and the stallions remained intact. The dust has settled from a government roundup ...

Judge Takes BLM To Task Over Wild Horse Roundup Misconduct

AP | By SCOTT SONNER | Posted 10.31.2011

RENO, Nev. -- A federal judge in Nevada is taking the U.S. government to task for misconduct by a helicopter contractor during one of the biggest must...

BLM Approves Christo's Arkansas River Project With Few Changes

AP | By CATHERINE TSAI | Posted 09.27.2011

DENVER -- Artist Christo's plan to suspend huge fabric panels over parts of the heavily rafted Arkansas River in Colorado is largely intact under a ve...

Chirsto To Suspend Fabric Over Parts Of Arkansas River

AP | Posted 08.25.2011

SALIDA, Colo. -- The Colorado State Parks Board approved an agreement Friday for the artist Christo to pay $550,000 to state parks to carry out his Ov...

Rural Colorado Counties Experiencing High-Ozone Warnings By State Health Officials

Grand Junction Daily Sentinel | Dennis Webb | Posted 05.25.2011

Put together the wide-open spaces, low population and light traffic of a place like Rio Blanco County, and it wouldn't seem like a recipe for an ozone...

Salazar: BLM Drilling Permits On The Rise

Grand Junction Daily Sentinel | Dennis Webb | Posted 05.25.2011

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says the Bureau of Land Management expects to process 7,200 oil and gas drilling permits this year, up from about 5,000...

Weekly Mulch: Activist Tim DeChristopher Convicted of Two Felonies

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

The Media Consortium

by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger Environmental activist Tim DeChristopher was convicted yesterday of two felony counts. DeChristopher was o...

Bidder 70: Obedience Is Scarier Than Prison

Andy Stepanian | Posted 05.25.2011

Andy Stepanian

We are fighting for our futures, and Tim DeChristopher is our first voluntary casualty.

House Votes To Cut BLM Budget Over Wild Horse Roundups In West

AP | SCOTT SONNER | Posted 05.25.2011

RENO, Nev. — The U.S. House approved an amendment on a voice vote Wednesday that would cut the Bureau of Land Management's budget by $2 million ...

Six Horse Racing Highlights From 2010

Liz O'Connell | Posted 05.25.2011

Liz O'Connell

This year, advocates for the welfare of horses stepped up their game. And as for the sport? Some relatively new, relatively young race horse owners' commitment to the sport paid off.

Energy Group Sues Feds For Stopping Fast-Track Drilling Approval In West

AP | MEAD GRUVER | Posted 05.25.2011

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — A petroleum industry group has filed a lawsuit saying federal land managers lacked authority to stop fast-track approval of oil...

Interior Announces Restoration Of Wilderness Rules For Public Lands

Posted 05.25.2011

(ASSOCIATED PRESS) DENVER (AP) -- The Obama administration plans to reverse a Bush-era policy and make millions of undeveloped acres of land once aga...

Plan To Protect Canyons Of The Ancients Has Ranchers, Drillers Up In Arms

The Durango Herald | Dale Rodebaugh | Posted 05.25.2011

Ranchers, a company drilling for carbon dioxide, recreational users and private landowners are up in arms over the resource-management plan adopted in...

Wild Horse Roundup Set To Begin In NW Colorado

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

MEEKER, Colo. — Helicopters began rounding up wild horses Monday in northwestern Colorado over the objections of animal advocacy groups. The U....