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Tag: environment
Well, at least the Trump Administration doesn’t want to wreck Yellowstone. The U.S. Forest Service is recommending a twenty-year moratorium on new mining claims on…
Democrat-running-independent Peter Klebanoff quotes a Frenchman and chips away at Trumpist anti-regulatory nihilism: Antoine de Saint Exupéry (1900-1944), author of the book The Little Prince,…
Yesterday’s flood-spawning rain in Sioux Falls put a damper on Sunday outings, but we can hope it also helped dilute some of the ammonia Smithfield…
The Trump Administration says Keystone XL’s modified route through Nebraska won’t hurt that state’s environment much: The U.S. State Department released a draft study Monday…
How’d all that oil get on the ground? TransCanada’s Keystone pipeline ruptured and spewed 9,700 barrels of oil* onto the South Dakota prairie just southeast…
I like the in-depth reporting South Dakota News Watch is offering, but in their latest report, Bart Pfankuch appears to overstate what Canadian gold miners Agnico…
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources closes public comment tomorrow on the wastewater disposal pipeline that Agropur wants to build from its expanding Lake…
South Dakota’s next big pipeline won’t carry oil; it’ll carry wastewater from Agropur’s Lake Norden cheese plant to the Big Sioux River. According to documents…
Lake Mitchell, the 90-year-old reservoir north of Mitchell, is so full of algae that the city is considering draining the lake to remove the nutrient-laden…