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EPA: Uranium From Polluted British Petroleum Mine Found In Nevada Water Wells

AP | SCOTT SONNER | Posted 11.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Bp, Yerington, Us Bureau of Land Management, Mining, Epa, Atlantic Richfield, Uranium, British Petroleum, Nevada, Yerington Paiute Tribe, Nevada Department Of, Uranium Mine, Hydreology, Uranium Mines, New Mexico, Green News

YERINGTON, Nev. — Peggy Pauly lives in a robin-egg blue, two-story house not far from acres of onion fields that make the northern Nevada air sm...

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Western Slope Uranium Mill: Only State Needs To Approve Before Ground Can Break

The Denver Post | Bruce Finley | Posted 10.27.2009 | Denver

Read More: Mark Udall, John McCain, Nuclear Power, Uranium, Colorado Department of Health and Environment, Energy Fuels Inc., Yellowcake Uranium, Western Slope Uranium, Bill Ritter, Colorado, Denver News

A Canadian company's push to build the United States' first new conventional uranium mill since the Cold War has cleared local hurdles -- despite envi...

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Green River Nuclear Power Proposal Sparks Concerns Over Water Use

The Colorado Independent | David O. Williams | Posted 10.21.2009 | Denver

Read More: Uranium, Mark Udall, Green River Utah, Living Rivers, Uranium Watch, Nuclear Power, Bureau of Reclamation, Denver News

Conservation groups and at least one federal agency are raising serious questions about a water grab for a proposed nuclear power plant near Green Riv...

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Hugo Chavez Jokes About Nuclear Bomb For Iran On Live TV

The Guardian | James Sturcke | Posted 10.07.2009 | World

Read More: John McCain, Nuclear Weapon, Hugo Chavez, Venezuela, Chavez Jokes About Bomb, Nuke, Chavez Nuclear Bomb, George W. Bush, Atomic Bomb, Bush, Iran, Ahmadinejad, Nuclear Bomb, Chavez, Chavez Jokes About Nuclear Bomb, Uranium, World News

Telling somewhat less than tasteful jokes about weapons of mass destruction has been an occasional pastime of a number of senior US Republican politic...

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Montrose County Uranium Mill: County Commissioners Approves Permit

coloradoindependent.com | David O. Williams | Posted 09.30.2009 | Denver

Read More: Nuclear Energy, Montrose County, Colorado, Energy Independence, Green Energy, Uranium Mill, Nuclear Power, Uranium, Denver News

MONTROSE -- It began with the audience turning, facing the flag and reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. Just over an hour later, a special Montrose Cou...

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Yellowcake Uranium Trucks "Can Go Wherever They Want" After Recent State Decision

The Colorado Independent | David O. Williams | Posted 11.21.2009 | Denver

Read More: Grand Junction, Mark Udall, Ouray, Colorado Roads, Colorado Uranium, Yellowcake Uranium, Nuclear Power, Uranium, Denver News

MONTROSE -- Opponents of a proposed uranium mill in southwestern Colorado near the Utah state line may be relieved to hear that state officials in cha...

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Diplomats: Iran's Enriched Uranium Output Stagnates

AP | GEORGE JAHN | Posted 09.25.2009 | World

Read More: Iran, Nukes, Enriched Uranium, Tehran, Nuclear Warheads, Nuclear Bombs, World, Nuclear Power, Iaea, Uranium, World News

VIENNA — Iran's output of enriched uranium is stagnating even as its production capacity increases, a sign that Tehran may be running out of the...

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The Rest of the Story

Carl Pope | Posted 09.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Grand Canyon, Uranium, Lead, Roadless, Fema, Fema Trailers, Ken Salazar, Green News
Carl Pope

Off the front pages, last year's election is having some wonderful environmental results, and we're making real progress.

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Government Authorizes Grand Canyon Uranium Mining

nytimes.com | ERIC BONTRAGER | Posted 06.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Uranium, Environment, Grand Canyon, Green News

The Bureau of Land Management has given the green light to new uranium mining exploration in the Grand Canyon: All of the projects are within the 1 m...

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Earth Day Atonement: 10 Environmental Disasters to Remember

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Bhopal, Dirty Coal, Buffalo Creek Disaster, Species, Extinction, TVA Coal Ash Pond Disaster, Uranium, Love Canal, Donora Smog, Mountaintop Removal, Black Mesa, Coal, Environmental Disaster, Exxonmobil, Native People, Earth Day, Climate Change, Global Warming, Earth Day 2009, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Ten tragic lessons in our nation's environmental history that should never be forgotten. And one climate destabilization tragedy in the making that needs our urgent help.

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Brazil Flips The Switch On Uranium Enrichment Plant

Jessicah Curtis | Posted 04.02.2009 | World

Read More: Brazil Nuclear Ambitions, Brazil Nuclear, Brazil Nuclear Energy, Uranium Enrichment, Brazil, Iaea, Resende Facility, Resende Brazil, Brazil Nuclear Power, Brazil Uranium Enrichment, Enriched Uranium, Nuclear Power, Uranium, Huffington Post Resende, World News
Jessicah Curtis

Brazil has become one of just a handful of states to enrich uranium in a controversial bid to boost nuclear power production and ensure future energy ...

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Bush's 11th Hour Bonanza

Mike Papantonio | Posted 01.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Environment, George Bush, Energy Meeting, War, Mining, Logging, Regulation, 11th Hour, Dick Cheney, Uranium, Politics News
Mike Papantonio

Cheney made good on his promise to slow the global warming debate, ordering federal employees to delete federal reports establishing that global warming was potentially catastrophic.

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Bush Not Done Endangering Earth Just Yet

McClatchy Newspapers | Renee Schoof | Posted 12.08.2008 | Green

Read More: Grand Canyon, Mining, George W. Bush, Environment, Uranium, Grand Canyon Uranium, Endangered Species, Mountaintop Removal, Pollution, Coal, Green News

WASHINGTON -- In the next few weeks, the Bush administration is expected to relax environmental-protection rules on power plants near national parks, ...

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McCain Approves Bush's Rush To Open Grand Canyon To Toxic Uranium Mining

The Wonk Room | Brad Johnson | Posted 11.15.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Toxic, Grand Canyon, Mining, Uranium Mining, Uranium, Environment, Mccain, Bush, Green News

The Bush Administration is rushing forward with plans to mine the Grand Canyon for uranium, ignoring a command from Congress to cease such operations....

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After Brain Surgery, He's Still The Same Old Robert Novak

Sandy Goodman | Posted 10.09.2008 | Media

Read More: Cancer, George Bush, Judy Woodruff, Cia, Vicki Kennedy, Brain Tumor, Iraq, Valerie Plame, Teddy Kennedy, Bill Harlow, Robert Novak, Al Hunt, Patrick Fitzgerald, Michael Hayden, Niger, Bob Shrum, Joe Wilson, Lewis Libby, Uranium, Media News
Sandy Goodman

His latest column shows that while Novak can be exceedingly gracious to people who helped him through his ordeal, he can still be spiteful and deceptive when it comes to those he doesn't like.

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"Oil vs. Nuclear" Finite Resources: Rising Prices - Lessons from the Past...

Gavin D. J. Harper | Posted 09.18.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Electricity, Peak Oil, Pickens, Energy Security, Oil, Wind, Uranium, Nuclear, Green News
Gavin D. J. Harper

On the banks of the River Thames, just on the edge of Greater London is a lesson the energy industry could well do to heed.

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Avoiding War With Iran

Frida Berrigan | Posted 08.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama, Mccain, Iran, Nuclear War, Nuclear Power, Uranium, Bomb Bomb Iran, Politics News
Frida Berrigan

As the 63rd anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki approaches, the world continues to face a litany of nuclear concerns.

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Reading Solana in Tehran

Trita Parsi | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Uranium, Enrichment, Iran, Nuclear, Us, War, Solana, Politics News
Trita Parsi

Tehran is either putting on a nicer face to win time or it has recognized the dangers of an Israeli attack and is showing greater flexibility as a direct result of the Jewish state's muscle flexing.

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The Terrorist in the $10 Gallon Hat

Michael Rowan and Doug Schoen | Posted 07.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Energy, Venezuela, Gas, Oil Prices, Oil, Uranium, Iran, Hamas, Israel, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Venezuela Oil, Politics News
Michael Rowan and Doug Schoen

This Independence Day weekend, if you gas up at one of Venezuela's CITGO stations, ask yourself if you want to add to the $37 billion Americans will pay to Chavez this year for his over-priced gas.

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The Weapon of Mass Destruction Is Cancer

R. B. Stuart | Posted 06.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Warwire, Depleted Uranium, Iraq Veterans, Veterans and Cancer, Iraq Cancer, Va, Uranium, Cancer Soldiers, Politics News
R. B. Stuart

With the DoD's denial that cancer is a "war wound," many soldiers are left inflicted with the life threatening illness, uncertain of their military careers and fearful of their own mortality.

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The Butterfly Effect: From McCain's Lips To The New Mexico Desert

Susan Grant | Posted 06.18.2008 | Home

Read More: John McCain, Native American, New Mexico, Energy, Nuclear Power, Economy, Uranium, Mccain Uranium, Mccain Energy, Mccain Alternative Energy, Mccain Nuclear Power, Energy Policy, Home News
Susan Grant

McCain's energy policy emphasizes nuclear power and the uranium market is booming as a result. But in the south west, people are still cleaning their land of the radioactive waste from long-shut mines.

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Cheney's Compulsive Obsession with Iraq WMDs & Syrian Nukes

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Syria, Turkey, Wmds, George W. Bush, Cheney, Iraq, Seymour Hersh, Bashar Al-Assad, Foreign Policy, National Security, Plutonium, Nuclear Facility, Uranium, Israel, Arms Control Wonk, North Korea, Wmd, Cheney Iraq WMD, Syria WMD, Iraq WMD, Sigint, Dick Cheney Iraq, Chernobyl, Dick Cheney, Nuclear Weapons, Politics News
Steve Clemons

A source reported to me yesterday that in the last two weeks, Cheney held forth at a meeting on Iraq WMDs and insisted that they were real and still out there.

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