Posts tagged Environmental Law

• President Signs Exemption Allowing Navy to Bypass Environmental Law

  Shannon Weidemann | January 23, 2008 9:05 AM | 0 CommentsColorado Springs, CO Category: Miscellaneous
  

  A lawsuit was filed to stop the Navy from conducting high-power sonar exercises off the coast of California. Conservationists believe that the sonar can be harmful to fish and marine animals. An injuction has stopped the Navy from performing high-power exercises within 12 miles of the coast. President Bush signed an exemption last week to allow the Navy to bypass the environmental law. A...

• EEOC Temporary Inventory Reduction Project

  Staff Writer | September 20, 2006 9:35 PM | 0 CommentsCheyenne, WY Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The EEOC is planning a temporary inventory reduction project for August 28, 2006 through September 29, 2006. Investigators have been asked to assess and identify those cases in their respective inventories which they believe, for a variety of reasons, do not warrant additional investigation and/or expenditure of resources. In these specific cases only, a determination letter will be sent out...

• Environmental Issues Come With Development

  Staff Writer | August 16, 2006 10:49 AM | 0 CommentsCheyenne, WY Category: Miscellaneous
  

  As the West continues to grow and development ensues, many environmental issues involved with land development continue to escalate as well. Sewage systems, roads and water management are all part of this process.A recent article addresses some of these environmental law issues in two small towns: Hungry Horse, Montana and Murtaugh, Idaho. Both of these towns are looking at doubling in size...

• 12 BP Oil Wells Closed

  Staff Writer | July 30, 2006 10:35 PM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO Category: Miscellaneous
  

  According to the AP Wire, BP has halted operations at 12 Alaskan oil wells in order to investigate reports of leaking oil or diesel insulating agents. The wells are located at Prudhoe Bay, North Star and Milne Point and produced over 8,000 barrels of oil daily while in operation. Whistleblowers working with BP in Alaska reported the leaks to officials. Currently a grand jury is hearing testimony...

• Group Seeks to Protect Wild Buckwheat

  Staff Writer | July 30, 2006 9:31 PM | 0 CommentsGrand Junction, CO Category: Miscellaneous
  

  According to the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, environmental groups including the Uncompahgre Valley Association are requesting the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service make increasing efforts to protect the Clay Loving Wild Buckwheat, an endangered plant that grows only in Delta and Montrose Counties. The groups ask that the protected areas for this plant increase to include all of the Gunnison...

• Debate Continues over Coal Bed Methane Water

  Staff Writer | July 30, 2006 8:18 PM | 0 CommentsCheyenne, WY Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The debate over methane water continues as citizens of Wyoming living in the Powder River Basin claim the state government is unwilling to shield them against pollution from coal-bed methane water. The Powder River Basin runs along the Montana - Wyoming border and is the greatest single supply of coal mined in the U.S and officials estimate that it contains over 800 billion tons of coal....

• Opportunity for Wyoming to Lead in Development of Environmental Friendly Technology

  Staff Writer | July 18, 2006 4:23 PM | 0 CommentsCheyenne, WY Category: Miscellaneous
  

  A professor of ecology, Stephen Jackson, at the University of Wyoming is calling upon the state to be an innovative leader in the development of technology to limit global warming. Wyoming can be the forerunner in the effort to protect the environment because of their wealth of renewable energy resources and the ability to use carbon dioxide sequestration, a process that keeps carbon dioxide...

• Blunder at Merck's Biggest Production Site Pollutes Creek

  Staff Writer | July 16, 2006 10:08 AM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO Category: Miscellaneous
  

  An extremely troubling report in-Pharma Technologist.com indicated that government investigators are looking into the release of 25 gallons of chemicals containing cyanide from a Merck production plant in Pennsylvania into the sewer. It is likely that after the chemicals left the wastewater treatment plant it affected between two and eight miles of the Wissahickon Creek. While the incident...

• Grand Junction Solar Power Potential

  Staff Writer | July 07, 2006 9:34 AM | 0 CommentsGrand Junction, CO Category: Miscellaneous
  

  As officials in Grand Junction continue to push for oil shale development, Fred Pittenger, owner of the company Simplicity Solar, is looking to help people deal with rising fuel prices through another form of energy, solar power. According to an article in the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, Mr. Pittenger believes that solar power could be the future of Grand Junction energy as an organization...

• Colorado Springs Energy Rates Lowest in Colorado

  Staff Writer | July 06, 2006 9:39 AM | 0 CommentsColorado Springs, CO Category: Miscellaneous
  

  According to a report by Hispania News, the ACCRA cost-of-living index ranks Colorado Springs with the lowest energy rates in Colorado. A Colorado Springs resident's typical monthly energy bill was $121.56. According to Edward Easterlin, an official with Colorado Springs Utilities, the low energy cost in Colorado Springs, in part, is a result of an effective hedging program that helps to keep...