Mountains
GRANTS PASS, Ore. - Sen. Ron Wyden is preparing to introduce his long-awaited bill balancing protection for old growth forests in Oregon with restoring unhealthy forests and creating timber jobs.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - The Obama administration's new head of the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement plans no immediate changes to the regulation of mountaintop removal mining in a decidedly eastern U.S.
GREENBELT, Md. - Work on a West Virginia wind power project has been halted by a federal judge who sided with environmentalists' claim that the project would harm an endangered bat.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Environmental activists determined to save a southern West Virginia mountain from strip mining demanded Monday that the state intervene in Massey Energy's plans for blasting at the site.
