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Critics of coal-fired power plant in Utah attack fly-ash disposal plan Fly ash, the waste that remains from burning coal to produce power, is not considered hazardous waste in Utah or in many other states, but environmentalists and critics of a plan to build a coal-fired power plant in Utah said the waste should be considered hazardous and want the Sevier County Planning Commission to get answers about potential pollution problems caused by the fly ash before going forward. Salt Lake Tribune; Oct. 8 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Arizona developer settles EPA claim for $1.25 million In what is being said is one of the largest ever settlements the Environmental Protection Agency has reached under the federal Clean Water Act, an Arizona developer and his contractors have agreed to pay $1.25 million for razing and filling an extensive stretch of the lower Santa Cruz and the Los Robles Wash while clearing land for development near Red Rock in Pinal County. Arizona Republic; Oct. 8 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Drop in sales tax revenues has Utah Transit Authority making cuts The Utah Transit Authority's budget shortfall for the first seven months of 2008 is at $7.5 million, and UTA officials said if sales tax revenues continue to fall that budget deficit could reach $14 million by year's end, and are cutting hiring, travel and training to trim expenses. Deseret News; Oct. 8 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Colorado resort town trims another $900K from budget Requests for funding or increases in funding from groups such as Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival, the Valley Home Store and the World Cup Birds of Prey races all ended up on the cutting room floor during the Vail Town Council meeting Tuesday, as the Colorado resort worked to trim another $900,000 from its $51 million budget. Vail Daily; Oct. 8 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story N.M. city sets special election date on taxing sale of expensive homes The Santa Fe City Council voted Monday to hold a special election on March 10 to let voters in the New Mexico city decide if the city should tax the sale of homes sold for more than $750,000 and use the money generated to fund affordable housing. Santa Fe New Mexican; Oct. 8 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Montana planning board denies landowner's bridge request The Butte-Silver Bow planning board denied a request from a landowner in the Montana county to build a bridge across the Big Hole River near Wise River because the bridge was not needed to support agricultural operations, could not be accessed via an existing public right-of-way and could have had a detrimental effect on wildlife and habitat. Montana Standard; Oct. 8 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Number of Arizona schools that failed to meet NCLB goals climbs to 20 Last year, 17 schools in Arizona did not meet adequate yearly progress goals put in place by the federal No Child Left Behind law, and this year, 20 schools failed to meet that standard. Arizona Republic; Oct. 8 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Tribes
Chippewa-Cree primary winnows tribal chairman field down to 2 Voters in the Chippewa Cree primary Tuesday in Montana decided Jonathan Windy Boy and Raymond J. Parker Jr. would vie for the tribal chairman post in November, and trimmed the field of 58 candidates for four council spots down to eight. Great Falls Tribune; Oct. 8 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Environment
Groups sue USFS over Colorado coal mine's methane releases Environmentalists filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the U.S. Forest Service and the U.S. Department of Interior for allowing the expansion of a West Slope coal mine in Colorado which emits millions of cubic feet of methane a day. Denver Rocky Mountain News; Oct. 8 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Trout found again this year in rehabilitated Montana stream Silver Bow Creek near Butte had been contaminated with a century's worth of mining waste, but nine years of environmental remediation work in and around the Montana stream have helped bring it back to life, and for the second year in a row, trout have been found swimming in the creek. Montana Standard; Oct. 8 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story BLM to increase fees at Nevada's Red Rock Canyon Bureau of Land Management officials will take up a fee increase at Nevada's Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area on Nov. 12, and said the fee increase was needed to offset an increase in operating costs for the area's new visitor's center. Las Vegas Review-Journal; Oct. 8 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Politics
Voter-registration fraud investigation in Nevada leads to ACORN raid Nevada Secretary of State Ross Miller said the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) had submitted voter registration forms that included names of Dallas Cowboy football players and that other voter registration forms had false names or had duplicate information on multiple forms. Las Vegas Review-Journal; Oct. 8 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Montana GOP walks away from voter registration challenges Jacob Eaton, executive director of the Montana Republican Party, cited media reports that said the GOP's challenge of thousands of voter registrations were an effort to suppress voter turnout, as the reason the state Republican Party had decided to drop its challenge. Billings Gazette; Oct. 8 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Hundreds cast their votes on first day of voting in New Mexico Business was brisk at the Santa Fe County Clerk's Office on Tuesday, where more than 500 New Mexican voters cast their vote using absentee ballots and 350 got in under the wire to register to vote. Santa Fe New Mexican; Oct. 8 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Candidates for Colorado's U.S. Senate seat debate economic issues The candidates for Colorado's open U.S. Senate seat, Democratic Congressman Mark Udall and Republican Bob Schaffer, agreed that they did not support the $700-billion economic legislation passed by Congress last week, but they found little else to agree on in their second debate Tuesday night. Durango Herald; Oct. 8 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Energy issues power up Montana gubernatorial debate Democratic incumbent Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer and his Republican challenger Roy Brown met for the fourth time Tuesday night, where energy issues dominated the debate, with Brown challenging Schweitzer for being all talk and no action on energy, and Schweitzer ticking off what he said his administration has done to boost energy production. Billings Gazette; Oct. 8 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Idaho congressman defends absence from congressional hearings U.S. Rep. Bill Sali was one of more than a dozen members of the House Oversight Committee who declined to attend this week's hearings where federal lawmakers took officials of American International Group, Inc., and bankrupt investment bank Lehman Brothers to task, and the Idaho congressman said the hearings were politically motivated and did little to address the nation's economic crisis, but Sali's Democratic contender, Walt Minnick, said his absence indicated apathy about the Wall Street meltdown. Idaho Statesman (AP); Oct. 8 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Economy
Idaho firm says Idaho, N.M. sites under review for uranium-gas plant site Idaho-based International Isotopes Inc. said it is considering two sites in Idaho, one in New Mexico and one in Texas for its new plant to extract industrial gases from depleted uranium, with one potential site near France's Areva NC Inc. uranium-enrichment plant planned near Idaho Falls and another near Lea, N.M., where an Areva rival is building another uranium-enrichment plant. Twin Falls Times-News (AP); Oct. 8 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Wyoming conference examines ways to turn off-season 'on' The Yellowstone Business Partnership is hosting a conference this week in Cody to find ways for 25 counties around Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks where businesses depend on tourism to develop year-round economies. Billings Gazette; Oct. 8 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Canadian company wants to re-open century-old Nevada copper mine Enexco International officials said that it would probably be four to five years before it will actually re-open a Nevada copper mine last in operation in the 1880s and another mine last mined during World War II, they believe the mines hold a lot more copper and have begun working with the Bureau of Land Management to develop the site about 15 miles south of Jackpot. Twin Falls Times-News; Oct. 8 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Report: Nevada's economy declines most in nation A report from the Rockefeller Institute, a policy research organization at the State University of New York in Albany, said that the nation's economic downturn has hit Nevada the hardest. Las Vegas Review-Journal; Oct. 8 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story |
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