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Colorado laboratory's money problems won't halt Wyoming plans As the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., continues to cut staff and programs to address a $10 million budget shortfall, an official with Cheyenne LEADS, a Wyoming economic development organization, said those money problems won't affect its plan to build a $60 million supercomputer at the University. Casper Star-Tribune; Aug. 25 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Affordable-housing issue hits home in Utah resort city In cities across the West, closures of mobile home parks to make way for pricier development have put low-income residents on the streets, and the scenario is playing out now in Moab, as a trailer park is closing and the residents who fill low-paying jobs in the resort city, are left with nowhere to go. Salt Lake Tribune; Aug. 25 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Idaho's share of national housing aid could top $140 million The Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 passed by Congress in late July could funnel more than $140 million into Idaho to help homeowners with adjustable-rate mortgages refinance their loans or to providing funding for loans for low- and moderate-income borrowers. Idaho Statesman (AP); Aug. 25 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Affordable-housing townhome languishes on Arizona market Few buyers have expressed interest in a deed-restricted townhome in Flagstaff that is part of the Arizona city's affordable-housing project, even though recent studies suggest hundreds of families in the city that meet income thresholds. Arizona Daily Sun; Aug. 25 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Puncturevine pokes holes in Utah county's transit plan Envision Utah's management plan for the 22-mile Jordan River Parkway, which turns the route into a thoroughfare for bicycling commuters, have been deflated by thorny "goatheads," the spiky seedheads of puncturevine that poke holes in bike tires. Salt Lake Tribune; Aug. 25 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Environment
After 18 years on endangered species list, desert tortoises still in peril Federal officials said they're unsure if their efforts to save the Mohave desert tortoises found in Utah, Arizona, Nevada and California from extinction have worked, as attempts to find and count the shy, slow-moving Mojave desert-dweller often find no tortoises. Denver Post (AP); Aug. 25 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story NRC sets public meetings on in-situ uranium mining in Wyoming Violations at the nation's largest in-situ uranium mine in Wyoming raised new questions about the safety of the mining process, and the scrutiny of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which is working on a generic environmental impact statement that will serve as a baseline document for 14 more in-situ uranium mines in Wyoming, New Mexico and other states. Casper Star-Tribune; Aug. 24 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story BLM to lead tour of proposed cyanide-heap leach mine in Idaho The mining company that wants to pull gold from northcentral Idaho using an open-pit cyanide heap-leech method must go through the federal process for the mine even though a gold mine was approved for the same land in the 1990s, and on Thursday, the Bureau of Land Management will host a public tour of the proposed mine site. Idaho Statesman (AP); Aug. 25 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Volunteers catalogue mushrooms in Colorado national park More than 100 volunteers spent the weekend ferreting out the fungi in Rocky Mountain National Park, participating in the first-ever mycoblitz, an expansive mushroom-gathering and cataloging mission in the Colorado park. Boulder Daily Camera; Aug. 25 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Politics
Poll: Westerners prefer giving illegal immigrants legal route to citizenship A telephone poll commissioned by the Review-Journal, the Denver Post and the Salt Lake Tribune earlier this month of 400 likely voters in each Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming found that 53 percent of those polled believed undocumented immigrants working in the United States should be provided a legal path to citizenship rather than be deported, and 71 percent of those polled supported stronger security measures at the country's borders. Las Vegas Review-Journal; Aug. 25 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Economy
Storing renewable energy focus of N.M. lecture series The biggest obstacle in the nation's road to getting more of its energy from renewable energy is the lack of ability to store solar- and wind-generated energy, and Albert Migliori, a Los Alamos National Laboratory physicist, will discuss LANL's efforts on solving the storage problem at a series of lectures around New Mexico over the next few weeks. Santa Fe New Mexican; Aug. 23 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Montana commissioner says county should lead in energy efficiency Commissioner Peggy Beltrone's "Cascade County Energy Efficiency Strategy," outlines the route for the Montana county to take to become self-sufficient in energy, by tapping into wind energy and adopting conservation plans. Great Falls Tribune; Aug. 25 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Idaho nuclear power plant proponent takes group to court Alternate Energy Holdings, the company that wants to build a nuclear power plant in Idaho's Elmore County has sued the Snake River Alliance, charging that comments made by the anti-nuclear group were designed to lower the company's stock price and defame the company's executives. Idaho Statesman (AP); Aug. 25 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story |
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