Ads Urge Lawmakers: 'Fix Yucca Mountain'
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By Steve Tetreault  By STEVE TETREAULT  STEPHENS WASHINGTON BUREAU  WASHINGTON - The nuclear industry has launched advertisements urging Congress to pass a "Fix Yucca Mountain" bill amid signs such legislation probably is too late for this year.
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Congress is on the verge of approving half a dozen bills that would protect as much as 1 million acres of wilderness areas across the West, but the move has infuriated environmentalists who charge that lawmakers are giving away too much pristine public land to real estate developers and local...
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Crews searching for any sign of six miners trapped for more than three weeks are "hoping a miracle could happen," a federal official told lawmakers Wednesday, while another hole was drilled to insert a robotic camera into the mountain.
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By Erica Meltzer, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Feb. 12--Proposition 207 aimed to expand property rights in Arizona. If the government changed the rules for how you could use your land, you could ask for compensation for any lost value.
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By Brad Dokken, Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Feb. 18--The push for a constitutional amendment to designate a portion of the sales tax for natural resources programs is the big outdoors issue -- again -- this year in the Minnesota Legislature.
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By Stephens Washington Bureau  Stephens Washington Bureau   WASHINGTON - Ranchers would be paid to conserve rangeland vulnerable to wildfires, under a bill Nevada senators introduced on Monday.
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By Lisa Vorderbrueggen, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Feb. 1--Billboards along commuter routes in eastern Contra Costa County and a companion Web site calling environmental groups "radicals" have generated several hundred e-mails to local elected leaders.
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The race in Colorado's newest congressional district has turned ugly in the homestretch, with swastikas scrawled on the signs of Republican Rep. Bob Beauprez and deer entrails left on the doorstep of a Democrat.
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A US conservation group has launched an advertising campaign to persuade Thais to report traders in protected wildlife. In a series of television commercials, famous models, actors and other
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After reading about laws around the country banning panhandling, I think it is a wonderful idea for our state.  It would be great to make it retroactive to when Dave Checketts came begging.  Jeff Ayers  Kaysville  (c) 2007 Deseret News (Salt Lake City).
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By John Cramer john.cramer@roanoke.com 981-3140  Wildlife, water quality and eco-tourism would benefit under legislation proposed Tuesday in Congress to designate nearly 55,000 acres in Southwest Virginia as wilderness or national scenic areas, the bill's sponsors say.
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By Greeley Tribune, Colo.  Feb. 24--WASHINGTON -- U.S. Sen. Wayne Allard, R-Colo., is the co-sponsor of a bill to reform the Endangered Species Act requiring that each listing be supported by sound science and need, and be accompanied by a recovery plan that will lead to de-listing.
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Group demonstrates possible solutions, but lawmakers also need to act.
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Those incessant political ads aren't just on television. They're now on billboards, DVDs and even traffic reports.
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An election-year dispute over whether to allow loaded guns in national parks is holding up a vote on a massive bill affecting public lands from coast to coast.
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By Erica Meltzer, Arizona Daily Star  Two area environmental groups have appealed a county decision to renew Brush Ceramic Products' air-quality permit.
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The political affiliate of a national conservation group is airing radio advertisements in the districts of five House Republicans from the West, who are described by the group as having their Ã¢ÂÂheads in the sandÃ¢ÂÂ on legislative efforts to call attention to and curb global warming.