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Few attend meeting on Montana county's proposed air-quality rules When the Missoula City-County Health Department first proposed changes to the Montana county's air-quality rules there was considerable public outcry over a plan to regulate wood-burning stoves, but at a meeting Thursday night on the proposed rules only about 20 people showed up and few were willing to step up to the microphone and share their opinion on the regulations. Missoulian; June 19 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Nevada city opposes BLM's fire-station proposal The Carson City Board of Supervisors voted to oppose the Bureau of Land Management's plan to build a fire station to house and train seasonal firefighters who would fight wildfires in Northern Nevada, because the facility is a poor fit with surrounding neighborhoods and open space of the Nevada city. Nevada Appeal (Carson City); June 19 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Idaho resort's lenders want funding for receiver to end July 2 A group of creditors of the financially troubled Tamarack Resort led by Swiss banker Credit Suisse asked an Idaho state district court judge Thursday to end payments to the court-appointed receiver of the Idaho resort end July 2. Idaho Statesman (AP); June 19 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Members of Utah's Utopia network to get bill In 2002, eleven Utah cities bought into the Utopia fiber-optic communications system, lured by promises of economic development that would flow into the communities via the high-speed system and generate enough profit that the communities wouldn't have to pony up on sales-tax revenue pledges, but the profits didn't flow as promised and now 10 of the 11 communities are being asked to pay up on those pledges. Salt Lake Tribune; June 19 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Wyoming asks for $15M in federal stimulus funds for juvenile jails Gary Hartman, Gov. Dave Freudenthal's juvenile justice adviser, said the state has applied for $15 million in federal stimulus funds to replace the Casper juvenile detention center and for group homes in Basin, Jackson, Sheridan and perhaps even Rawlins to offer an alternative to locking juveniles up. Casper Star-Tribune (AP); June 19 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Utah gets $15M in stimulus funds to weatherize homes The Obama administration released another $15 million in federal stimulus funds designated for weatherization assistance programs in Utah on Thursday, providing the state the means to do work on an additional 4,400 homes to save money on heating and air conditioning bills. Deseret News; June 19 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Idaho conference on planning stresses sustainability At New West’s Planning in the West Conference in Boise this week, speakers stressed the importance of engaging the community when creating a comprehensive growth plan and working to ensure that sustainability was a goal rather than a marketing buzzword, although little was said about how to achieve affordable sustainable development. NewWest.net; June 19 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Utah group builds highly efficient, affordable homes in Magna The nonprofit Community Development Corp. of Utah plans to build a five-house development for low-income families in Magna that will offer houses loaded with energy saving features that will lower gas and electric bills to about half the average tab. Salt Lake Tribune; June 19 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Cargo-container housing on display in Utah today At the Utah Art Council's seventh annual Design Arts Program that kicks off today in Salt Lake City, lifelong Salt Lake County resident Jeff White will exhibit his environmentally friendly, low-cost housing created out of used cargo containers. Salt Lake Tribune; June 19 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Tribes
Senate confirms N.M. woman as Interior Dept.'s top lawyer On Thursday, the U.S. Senate confirmed Hilary Tompkins, a Navajo woman from New Mexico, as solicitor of the U.S. Department of Interior. You may have to view an ad to read this article. Albuquerque Journal; June 19 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Meth link suspected in artifact looting cases in the West A week after federal agents rounded up 24 suspects in the Four Corners region involved in what has been labeled the largest investigation ever into the looting of Native American artifacts, archaeologists and law enforcement experts say there is a link between methamphetamine and looters, although officials would not elaborate on the link and have identified no direct connection between drugs and the most recent round of arrests. Grand Junction Daily Sentinel; June 19 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Environment
Biologists track wolverine from Wyoming into Colorado About a century ago, there were wolverines in Colorado, but the elusive member of the weasel family were trapped and poisoned and crowded out until there were none to be found in the Centennial State until Memorial Day weekend, when a young male wolverine known as M56 wandered from his home in Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming, crossed I-80, and made his way into Colorado. New York Times; June 19 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Groups ask Colorado governor to halt work on roadless plan Conservation groups have asked Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter to stop work on a plan for more than 4 million acres of federal roadless forest lands in the state to give the Obama administration time to review what some groups are calling the state's flawed plan. Boulder Daily Camera (AP); June 19 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Industry chief urges Wyoming miners to fight climate-change bill In his speech to the Wyoming Mining Association on Thursday, National Mining Association President Hal Quinn said climate-change legislation currently before Congress will push the cost structure of the industry too high, making national companies unable to compete with Chinese companies, and Quinn also urged the industry to invest in carbon-capture technology. Casper Star-Tribune (AP); June 19 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Group, USFWS reintroduce aplomado falcons in N.M. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and The Peregrine Fund are teaming up to reintroduce the rare northern aplomado falcon to the species' historic range in New Mexico's grasslands. Durango Herald (AP); June 19 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Politics
Idaho senator promises to filibuster Clean Water legislation Idaho U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo is among the Republican minority who oppose legislation to revamp the federal Clean Water Act to address Supreme Court rulings in 2001 and 2006 that limited the authority of the act, and after the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works approved the bill on a 12-7 party-line vote on Thursday, Crapo said he would filibuster the bill. Idaho Statesman (AP); June 19 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Colorado's Pinon Canyon opponents dealt another blow Tuesday, Rep. John Salazar of Colorado said he would no longer fight to permanently ban the expansion of the Army's Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site, and Wednesday a House committee killed a bill that would have blocked the site's expansion, making it more likely that the 100,000-acre addition will go forward. Durango Herald (AP); June 19 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Legislature
Groups press Idaho lawmakers to rework recreation fund structure Under a deal struck this legislative session, the 3 percent share of gas-tax revenue the Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation gets for trail maintenance and other amenities used by motorized and nonmotorized trail users in the state will be reallocated to the highway department, and lawmakers will begin meetings on June 30 to find a new source of funding for Parks and Recreation. Idaho Statesman; June 19 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Economy
Unemployment rates climb to record territory in Oregon, Nevada According the U.S. Labor Department's latest report, the Western region of the United States reported the highest unemployment rate in the nation with a 10.1 percent rate, the highest in the region since September 1983, and Nevada and Oregon were among the eight states that set a new unemployment record in May. Idaho Statesman (AP); June 19 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Unemployment rose in Utah in May Unemployment rates in Utah rose from 5.2 percent in April to 5.4 percent in May, but initial unemployment claims slowed a bit in May as well, a sign state labor officials said indicates that the state's economy may be close to turning a corner. Salt Lake Tribune; June 19 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Report: Personal income in Montana fell during first quarter Patrick Barkey, director of the University of Montana's Bureau of Business and Economic Research, said the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis released Thursday had few surprises although the fact that personal income in the state during the first quarter of 2009 fell 0.48 percent wasn't welcome news. Missoulian; June 19 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Colorado company promises to restart Wyoming sawmill Despite missing the promised early 2009 restart of the Saratoga sawmill in Wyoming, Colorado-based Intermountain Resources LLC said the facility will open as soon as possible but declined to provide another targeted opening date. Casper Star-Tribune (AP); June 19 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Downtown Missoula Starbucks only one in Montana to close The closing date for the Starbucks in Missoula's downtown hasn't been set yet, but Starbucks officials did confirm that it was likely the only Montana store among the 900 stores the company plans to close nationwide. Missoulian; June 19 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Wyoming not concerned about predictions of drop in coal production The U.S. Energy Information Administration predicted that coal production could drop 7 percent this year driven by a 4.6 percent drop in electricity production, but that the decrease would be a temporary one and after the nation recovers from the economic slump, electricity demands will again rise as will the need for coal. Billings Gazette (AP); June 19 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story |
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