Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY)

"Firefighters Step Up Battle Against Idaho Blaze; Resort Towns Menaced"

"SALMON, Idaho -- Firefighters mounted on Sunday an all-out ground and air attack on an Idaho wildfire that has forced the evacuation of some 2,250 homes and threatened the world-class ski resort of Sun Valley, where snow-making water cannons were used to keep the flames at bay."

Source: Reuters, 08/19/2013

"EPA Wants To Allow Continued Wastewater Dumping In Wyoming"

"The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to let oil companies continue to dump polluted wastewater on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming. This includes chemicals that companies add to the wells during hydraulic fracturing, an engineering practice that makes wells produce more oil."

Source: NPR, 08/08/2013

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