What is the controversy over the Factory Butte landmark in Utah that has environmental groups filing lawsuits? –M. Jensen, Taos, NM The kerfuffle over Factory Butte, a 6,300-foot peak in Wayne County, Utah about 25 miles east of Capitol Reef National Park, stems from the on-again, off-again nature of federal rules about whether Off-Road Vehicles…
Continue reading →What’s the background of the controversy over whether to allow development of a big copper and gold mine near Alaska’s Bristol Bay?–C. Karo, Pittsburgh, PA Environmentalists, fishermen and Native Americans breathed a sigh of relief in 2014 when the Obama administration invoked a rarely used provision in the Clean Water Act to block the proposed…
Continue reading →By Caitlin E. Werrell and Francesco Femia, E-International Relations CC BY-NC 4.0 This article is an abridged version of a forthcoming article for The Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University. The end of the Cold War coincided with the beginning of global awareness about the risks…
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