DEADLIEST ROADKILL EVER IN WYOMING
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BY BRIAN MAFFLY, NEW WEST, 02/17/07
Even by Wyoming standards, the scene of a Jan. 15 wildlife-vehicle collision in a Sublette County gas field was shocking.
Game warden Brian Nesvik responded to a report of a wildlife accident to find 21 dead or dying pronghorn strewn along an unfenced service road in the Jonah gas field outside Pinedale.
Further research indicates, however, that
the deadly encounter was hardly the fluke it initially seemed. At least four other winter-time mass-casualty roadkills have occurred in southwest Wyoming since 2003, including a train incident that killed 41 pronghorn near Granger.
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Wyoming governor calls for tighter wildlife protection
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We considered this story important enough to run in both our new newsletter and March home page. You can read more about
collaboration efforts near Wyoming's Trapper's Point in our collaboration stories section.
BY WHITNEY ROYSTER, CASPER STAR-TRIBUNE, 02/28/07
JACKSON — The federal government is jeopardizing wildlife in the West by not assuring adequate reviews of some energy development, Gov. Dave Freudenthal told members of the Western Governors Association this week.
On Tuesday in Washington, D.C., fellow Western governors agreed with Freudenthal and approved a resolution calling for an amendment to the federal Energy Policy Act. That amendment would strengthen environmental requirements to assure energy development is not harming big game habitat and migration corridors (italics ours).
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Money, coal and some really strange bedfellows
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From a simple buyout to an ongoing narrative
A buyout deal that has many shades of green
BY ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, NEW YORK TIMES, 02/26/07
About two weeks ago, Fred Krupp, the president of a nonprofit advocacy group called Environmental Defense, received an unusual phone call.
William K. Reilly, the former administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency under President George H. W. Bush, was on the other end. But before Mr. Reilly would explain the reason for his call, he said he needed an assurance from Mr. Krupp that he would keep the conversation confidential.
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Environmentalist groups feud over terms of the TXU buyout
BY REBECCA SMITH AND JIM CARLTON, WALL STREET JOURNAL, 03/03/07
Just days after two of the nation's leading environmental groups blessed an investor plan to buy TXU Corp. and take the controversial Texas utility in a new and “greener” direction, a battle has broken out in the environmental community over the terms of the deal.
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TXU buyout rings hollow to some enviros
GREENWIRE, 03/05/07
While the participants in last week's $45 billion buyout of TXU Corp. are trumpeting a provision to scale back TXU's controversial plans to build 11 new coal-fired power plants in Texas to three, groups outside the deal are saying the environmental negotiators should have held out for more.
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TXU partners plan IGCC, carbon-capture demonstration plants
BY MARY O'DRISCOLL, E&E NEWS PM, 03/09/07
The leverage-buyout partners involved in the takeover of TXU Corp. followed up promises to reduce air pollution and greenhouse-gas emissions today by announcing plans to build two integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) demonstration plants with carbon-dioxide capture in Texas.
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TXU abused Texas power market, report says
GREENWIRE, 03/13/07
TXU Corp. abused its dominant position in the Texas energy market in 2005 by overcharging customers $70 million in rate increases while earning itself $20 million in extra profits, according to a report commissioned by the Texas Public Utility Commission.
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Marching with a mouse
BY THOMAS FRIEDMAN, NEW YORK TIMES, 03/16/07
There aren’t a lot of environmental groups with their own investment bank consultants, so when you hear that Environmental Defense has just hired the boutique Wall Street firm Perella Weinberg Partners, you know that we’re in a new world. Every college activist should study this story, because it is the future. In the old days, when activists wanted something done, they held a sit-in or organized a protest march. Now they hire an investment bank.
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