CHEYENNE, Wyo. — The Wyoming Game and Fish Department is extending the deadline for public comment on its proposed recommendations for protectin...
AP | MATTHEW DALY | Posted 12.16.2009 | Denver
WASHINGTON — An animal protection group asked a federal judge Wednesday to block a plan to round up about 2,500 wild horses to remove them from ...
AP | SANDRA CHEREB | Posted 12.14.2009 | Denver
CARSON CITY, Nev. — The Bureau of Land Management approved the removal of 2,500 wild horses from the range near Reno on Monday as opposition gro...
AP | MEAD GRUVER | Posted 12.10.2009 | Denver
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Environmentalist concerns about elk have prompted the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to suspend coal-bed methane drilling in pa...
AP | By MARTIN GRIFFITH | Posted 12.07.2009 | Green
SPARKS, Nev. -- One of most stirring symbols of the American West -- mustangs thundering freely across the range -- could be heading east. The gove...
AP | MARTIN GRIFFITH | Posted 11.22.2009 | Denver
RENO, Nev. — Sheryl Crow is joining others in calling on the federal government to halt roundups of wild horses in the West, branding them as in...
AP | Posted 11.13.2009 | Denver
DENVER — Federal officials have sold oil and gas leases on a total of about 6,000 acres in Colorado for $112,969. The highest per-acre price in...
AP | MARTIN GRIFFITH | Posted 10.19.2009 | Denver
RENO, Nev. — A new federal proposal to manage wild horses is rekindling debate over another fixture of the Western range: cattle. Interior Secr...
Adele Israel | Posted 10.12.2009 | Denver
After listening to seven speakers and a panel discussion at Mesa State, I may not know everything about the local fossil fuel industry, but I sure know a lot more acronyms.
AP | MATTHEW DALY | Posted 10.09.2009 | Denver
WASHINGTON — Thousands of mustangs that now roam the West would be moved to preserves in the Midwest and East under a new Interior Department pl...
The Colorado Independent | David O. Williams | Posted 11.17.2009 | Denver
The Energy Policy Act of 2005 rather famously - or infamously, depending on your point of view - allowed for a Safe Drinking Water Act exemption for t...
The Denver Post | Mark Jaffe | Posted 10.18.2009 | Denver
The fight over plans for natural-gas drilling on the Roan Plateau has erupted anew after Bill Barrett Corp. told investors that there are up to 3,200 ...
AP | JAMES MacPHERSON | Posted 07.06.2009 | Green
BISMARCK, N.D. — The federal government has rejected an environmental group's request to boost the bond required of an Oklahoma company after a ...
Robert Redford | Posted 02.22.2009 | Green
Destroying our natural heritage will do nothing to solve our energy challenges for the long-term, which to me, is even more reason to act.
Clean Technology | Posted 02.21.2009 | Green
Not since the Gold Rush has there been such a stampede to stake out land in California and surrounding states, except this time, solar energy is the p...
Bidder70.org | Tim DeChristopher | Posted 02.09.2009 | Green
The following is a statement from Tim DeChristopher, Bidder 70, who bid up prices at a Bureau of Land Management auction to keep them from being sold ...
Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 02.05.2009 | Green
A few weeks ago, an environmentalist named Tim DeChristopher played a big joke on the Bureau of Land Management, the Bush Administration and the oil a...
Michael DeJong | Posted 01.28.2009 | Green
Little measures -- recycling, driving a most fuel-efficient car, walking, biking or using public transit, and installing low-flow shower heads -- can make a huge difference.
Los Angeles Times | Nicholas Riccardi | Posted 01.18.2009 | Green
Reporting from Denver -- Environmental groups filed a lawsuit Wednesday as a last-ditch effort to block the sale of leases for 110,000 acres of federa...
Robert Redford | Posted 12.18.2008 | Green
On the very day that we raised our voices for change and voted to move away from the failed energy philosophy of "drill, baby, drill," the Bush administration dragged us in the opposite direction.
New York Times | FELICITY BARRINGER | Posted 12.09.2008 | Green
The Bureau of Land Management has expanded its oil and gas lease program in eastern Utah to include tens of thousands of acres on or near the boundari...
AP | ERICA WERNER | Posted 07.10.2008 | Green
WASHINGTON — The government said Wednesday it is calling off a recently announced moratorium on applications to build solar plants on public lan...
AP | Posted 12.17.2009 | Denver