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That could spell trouble for proposed coal-fired power plants - including the Desert Rock in New Mexico and Toquop in Nevada, as well as at least six others in the West - by upping project costs considerably, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council. Meanwhile, major investment banks Citigroup Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Morgan Stanley announced that they won't finance new coal plants that don't address greenhouse gas emissions, and the federal'government has suspended its own loan program. Lobbyists and companies are ratcheting up their efforts to promote coal in anticipation of November's presidential election, with one industry group, Americans for Balanced farms and feedlots. Grazing and gas drilling are also taking their toll. Over the course of the last century, the Tired of smog-ridden suburban West's air has become five to seven sprawl and strip malls? Perhaps it's times dustier than it was before time to escape to one of the West's European settlement, thanks prinational forests, parks or other marily to widespread grazing that sundry public lands for a deep, started in the 1800s, a new study calming breath of fresh air. But says. And Wyoming's rural even that Western staple is becom- Sublette County, in the throes of a ing as hard to find as affordable natural gas boom, posted its firstreal estate in a ski town. ever air-quality alert Feb. 27 after The federal Western Airborne ozone levels in the Pinedale area Contaminants Assessment Project rose 50 percent higher than the recently found 70 nasty chemicals federal health standard. Ozone, and heavy metals in the snowpack, which causes respiratory problakes, vegetation and fish of 20 lems, is a key component of smog national parks and monuments usually found in big cities. from Alaska to Texas. Still, drilling on the Pinedale The latest attractions at places Anticline shows no signs of slowlike Rocky Mountain, Sequoia ing, and new pipelines promise to and Kings Canyon National Parks keep things bullish. The January include fish laced with high con- completion of the Rockies Express centrations of mercury and the Pipeline, which carries gas from banned insecticide Dieldrin. Colorado and Wyoming to the Other treats awaiting wildlife and Midwest, and a resulting spike in tourists include DDT, PCBs and gas prices have some Wyoming PBDE - a commonly used flame producers already ramping up retardant that affects liver,.thy- operations. The Ei Paso Corp. roid and brain development. recently announced plans for a Borne aloft by wind and weather, new pipeline to carry gas from the the contaminants come from as Rockies to California, the latest of far away as Asia and Europe, and three such proposals. as close as the nearest factory At least mercury pollution from By SARAH GIL MAN High Country News ijtah State Law; he PrenupYou Didn't Cnow You Agreed To. ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) - Utah's snowpack is looking good and there's still some more winter left to go. Randy Julander of the Natural Resources Conservation Service says the snowpack should be plenty to restock reservoirs this spring. Julander says too much snow is actually a possibility, but that will depend on how quickly it melts. "The water supply this *year is probably as good as it gets," Julander said during a meeting of the Utah Board of Water Resources. "We have got essentially double the snowpack this year that we had last year." And more snow is expected for this week. "We are expecting all of our reservoirs to fill up, except for We treat your art like it's our own baby (801) 746-6000 Aywl6ngokura.com ART& FRAME Taking A n Higher Between Staples & Pier 1 Imports next to Wai Mart at Kimball Junction Open 7 days a v*ek - Mon-SatlOam- 7pm-Sunday 12pm-4pm 435.649.0801 wwvApeakartandframe.com This article originally appeared on Mar. 17, 2008, in High Country News (www.hcn.org), which covers the West's communities and natural-resource issues. State officials say Utah snowpack piled high Create Your Own Marital Plan; FRAME YOUR LATEST CREATION Energy Choices, expecting to shell out some $40 million this year. The EPA isn't the only federal agency heading back to the drawing board. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is revisiting habitat protections for the threatened Canada lynx and taking another look at protecting the white-tailed prairie dog and the greater sage grouse. The rulings on those critters are three of eight endangered species decisions the agency is reviewing because Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior Julie MacDonald "revised" scientific opinions with her now notorious red pen. The Fish and Wildlife Service, sans MacDonald, now proposes to designate 42,753 square miles of new critical habitat for the lynx over 20 times more than the 1,841 square miles it designated in 2006. More than half of the land is in the Northern Rockies, the Cascades and around Yellowstone. None of it, however, is in Colorado, where state officials have spent more than a decade and $5 million trying to re-establish a viable population of the reclusive cats. GOKURA ^\ A VI Bear Lake and the others that have some restrictions," he said. Brian Mclnerney, a hydrologist with the National Weather Service in Salt Lake City, said Utah has had a nice, stormy winter since December. He said another big storm next week won't hurt, either. "That brings us two-thirds of the way into March," Mclnerney said. "I think once you can put together a March that's normal, or near normal, and have snowpacks that are 130 percent of normal, we can lose a little bit and still be normal.1' Mclnerney said if something drastically changes, Utah will have a slightly above-average runoff starting in April and continuing through June. Wednesday, March 26, 7:30 pm TEMPLE HAR SHALOM Proudly Presents. Made possible by a generous grant from Weddings '•**% Corporate Events Parties The Fields Family Fund Save this ad and get a 15% Off your next catered event. Limit one coupon per event. Valid until December 31st, 2008. Choose IRIEfor delicious Caribbean and Cajun Cuisine that's guaranteed to warm your soul. Dr. Judea Pearl Dr. Judea Pearl is the father of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. 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