The headline in an e-newsletter trumpeted: "Bush Plans for Environmental Legacy."  And apparently it wasn’t a joke. Bush is being pressed to protect the largest underwater canyon on Earth and some scattered atolls in the Pacific as national monuments. Bush may think it’s OK to protect America’s environment as long as it’s in the ocean …

Death Valley protected from attempt to use old, repealed law to put dirt bikes in National Park wilderness I have spent most of my working life for the past five years trying to stop old cow paths and jeep trails from becoming two-lane highways through national parks, wilderness, and other protected areas of federal land. …

They tell Colorado that proposed regulations will cripple the local economy, but investors are told that profits will still boom. Doom? Or boom? Is it the best of times? Or the worst? The oil and gas industry is saying it’s both. But they’re very careful about who receives which message. And the truth is a …

Photos tell story of the energy boom’s threat to wild Wyoming. The natural gas industry has boomed nowhere like it has in southwest Wyoming, in the Upper Green River Valley at the south end of the Yellowstone ecosystem.  Hundreds of well pads have been scraped and an industrial web of facilities and roads have gone …