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The Interior Department has announced new funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to clean up polluted areas and conserve ecosystems. Nearly $10 million will go towards 17 projects, including several in the Mountain West.
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A paper out of the University of Utah shows that plume heights are increasing more than 300 feet every year in mountain ranges in Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona.
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The agreement between the State of Wyoming and PacifiCorp will keep a unit of the Jim Bridger Power Plant online past the previous closure deadline of Apr. 30, which has been signed by Gordon. Carbon capture technologies may also lengthen the lifespan of the facility, which has been operating for over 50 years.
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These groups say that allowing units of the Jim Bridger Power Plant to remain open without having installed pollution control measures violates the latest round of the EPA's Regional Haze Program. Earlier this month, they notified the EPA of their intent to sue if the program's rules aren't enforced.
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A ruling could settle the decades-long dispute over the scope of the landmark law, with big implications for wetlands and ephemeral streams around the West.
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Gains in air quality had been hailed as a silver lining amid the COVID-19 pandemic. But according to new data out this week, those improvements in the…
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Tribes in the Mountain West reached resolutions in two long standing environmental disputes this week. The victories for the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes and...
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Some of the nation's top polluters are now running on the honor system after the Environmental Protection Agency last week announced relaxed enforcement...
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About one-third of Americans live in areas that regularly have unhealthy levels of air pollution, according to a new analysis out this week from...
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A recent study of rivers across 72 countries found that waterways are often contaminated with antibiotics, including here in the Mountain West.