Environmental issue - The Durango Herald

Drilling boom means more harmful waste spills to come

CROSSROADS, N.M. – Carl Johnson and son Justin, who have complained for years about spills of oilfield wastewater where they raise cattle in the high plains of New Mexico, stroll across a 1½...

DATE: Nov 15, 2015 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Metal sediment unlikely to dissolve

FLC professors plan research on effects on plants

DATE: Nov 14, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Nevada neighborhood first to feel sting of sage-grouse rules

SUN VALLEY, Nev. – One of the first, actual on-the-ground disruptions caused by new U.S. efforts to protect the greater sage-grouse isn’t on a cattle ranch in Oregon or an oil field in Color...

DATE: Nov 14, 2015 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Link between Navajo suicides, mine spill not clear

Tribe’s vice president skeptical waste release led to the deaths

DATE: Nov 14, 2015 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Lawmakers question EPA reports that reference Colorado agency’s involvement with Gold King spill

State officials contradict account

DATE: Nov 14, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Colorado disputes key part of EPA Gold King Mine report

State officials did not sign off on plan, according to letter

DATE: Nov 12, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Local officials to tour Superfund sites around Colorado

Visits aim to better understand federal cleanup designation

DATE: Nov 10, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Durangoans weigh in on greenhouse-gas limits

Clean Power Plan hearing comes on day CO2 reaches recorded high

DATE: Nov 9, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Property owner disputes ‘dead zone’ finding

State, gas firm finds die off not related to drilling

DATE: Nov 8, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Audit: Southwest Colorado has been lagging ‘way behind’ on recycling waste

Five counties drastically trailing both state’s and country’s rates

DATE: Nov 4, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Colorado lawmakers pursue mine cleanup bill

Bennet, Gardner and Tipton seek to pass good Samaritan legislation

DATE: Nov 1, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Goodbye, TP: My experiment in generating minimum trash

In the spring of 2010, on an episode of the radio show “The Story,” I heard the tale of a British couple who lived trash-free. I walked home from my laboratory at the University of Michigan ...

DATE: Oct 31, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World