Department of Energy
July 21, 2010--A water fight over luxury showers (Wall Street Journal)
Regulators are going after some of the luxury shower fixtures that took off in the housing boom. Many have multiple nozzles, cost thousands of dollars and emit as many as 12 gallons of water a minute.
August 1, 2009--Scientists checking Nevada Test Site groundwater (Denver Post)
Radioactive groundwater laced with the remnants of Cold War nuclear weapons testing is inching its way beyond the Nevada Test Site boundary, where scientists expect to soon find it for the first time.
July 31, 2009--Feds speed up removal of Moab uranium tailings (Durango Herald)
Work to remove 16 million tons of radioactive waste away from the tourist town of Moab is about to go a little faster. The U.S.
July 18, 2009--State site may become mercury waste dump (Durango Herald)
Environmental groups are gearing up for a hearing next week about whether Colorado will become a dump site for hazardous mercury wastes. The U.S.
June 19, 2008--Tainted H20 in sewer probed (Denver Post)
Trace amounts of plutonium were potentially washed into Boulder's wastewater system from two locations at the National Institute of Standards and Technology after a June 9 plutonium leak, federal and Boulder city officials said Wednesday.
