You have to read this final report just issued by the Interior Department to appreciate the blatant disregard for the West’s air quality demonstrated by the Bush Administration in its final weeks. First, some background. Late last year, I wrote a piece for High Country News that revealed the blistering critiques EPA’s Rocky Mountain office…Continue Reading…
During Bush’s two terms, I wrote a bunch of magazine stories about oil & gas development on public lands. I never encountered so many pissed off people. Many of them felt steamrolled by the energy boom– ranchers in Wyoming and New Mexico, environmentalists in Colorado, and archaeologists in Utah. Lots of career staffers in the…Continue Reading…
Oil and gas companies are understandably shrewd. If it’s not profitable to drill, they won’t drill. They’ll wait. They know the sun will rise again. As one economist puts it, the gas will be there when the economy recovers and prices improve. So if industry can pull up stakes and wait out the recession, why…Continue Reading…
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