What the neighbors are up to

November 4, 2010 · Posted by in Environment 

WYOMING

Here’s a bit of a surprise: In Wyoming, they’re protecting prairie dogs. OK, actually, they’re protecting black-footed ferrets, but black-footed ferrets find prairie dogs delicious, so the p-dogs are part of the bargain.

UTAH

Two Utahns return home from Washington, D.C., to walk 350 miles in an attempt to raise support for climate legislation.

NEW MEXICO

New Mexico has sort of joined a regional cap and trade agreement. But the people on the board that passed it are appointed by the governor — and the new boss is on record against a cap and trade agreement. Here’s an early LA Times primer on the Western Climate Initiative.

A permit for a coal mine on Navajo land has been revoked after a judge found the impact study to have been insufficient.

And EcoNewMexico.com’s author has just put together what sounds like a real honey of a home water conservation system.

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