Nation 8
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MONDAY, APRIL 2, 2007
Judge tosses case
NATIONAL BRIEFS Vernal, Utah
Rancher dies after cattle attack
BY PAUL ELIAS
An 87-year-old rancher attacked by two cows has died, his daughter said. Cecil Holmes of Vernal died Tuesday at University of Utah Hospital, a week after he was knocked down while moving cows to a pen from a field, daughter Doylene Timothy said. Holmes suffered chest injuries, including broken ribs and punctured lungs, she said. The cows charged and knocked him down, then head-butted him several times while he was on the ground. Timothy saw her father fall and called police before chasing the animals away.
“These regulations were designed by a former timber industry lobbyist,” said Sean Cosgrove of the Sierra Club, one of the 15 environmental groups who sued. “They would have silenced the voices of citizens in local forest planning and allowed destructive projects to move forward with little oversight.” The Bush administration environmental setback came the day after an internal Interior Department investigation found that deputy assistant secretary Julie MacDonald released information that was not supposed to be made public to organizations such as the California Farm Bureau Federation and Pacific Legal Foundation. “I think people who love wildlife and care for our public forest should be elated by this decision,” said Peter Frost, an attorney with the Western Environmental Law Center, one of the environmental groups that brought a pair of lawsuits challenging the new rules. Hamilton issued a single ruling for both cases. Frost said that if Hamilton upheld the new rules, “it would have likely meant the loss of species.” Frost said the new rules could have made it much easier for new projects such as logging, mining, livestock grazing and road building in 192 million acres of public land.
Associated Press Writer
SAN FRANCISCO A federal judge tossed out Bush administration rules Friday that gave national forest managers more discretion to approve logging and other commercial projects without lengthy environmental reviews. U.S. District Court Judge Phyllis Hamilton ruled that the administration failed to adequately consider the environmental effects the new rules would have and neglected to properly gather public comment on the issue. Hamilton said in her written ruling that the government “appears to have charted a new path and adopted a new policy approach regarding programmatic changes to environmental regulations.” Hamilton ruled that the government couldn’t institute the new rules until proper environmental reviews were conducted, but she declined to specify how the nation’s 155 national forests should be managed until then. The ruling overturns a key administration environmental rule that governs all 192 million acres of national forests and stops pro-business plans in the parks under way for more than two years.
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Glenwood Springs, Colo.
I-70 tunnel closing indefinitely to repair crack A nearly mile-long tunnel on heavily traveled Interstate 70 in Western Colorado will be shut down indefinitely because of a growing crack in the ceiling, officials said Friday. The eastbound bore of the 4,000-foot-long Hanging Lake Tunnel was expected to close later Friday. The westbound bore will be used to handle traffic in both directions, Colorado Department of Transportation spokeswoman Stacey Stegman said. Each bore has two lanes. On average, the two bores carry a combined 16,500 vehicles a day, she said. CDOT does not know how much the repairs will cost or how long they will take, but “we expect it to be a lengthy closure,” Stegman said. CDOT has been monitoring the crack for about a year, and by Friday it had grown to 70 feet long and 2 inches wide, Stegman said. In a written statement, CDOT said it does not believe the structure will fail, but the agency said it is “no longer comfortable allowing motorists to travel through the (eastbound) tunnel.” The Hanging Lake Tunnel, completed in 1992, is eight miles east of Glenwood Springs and 110 miles west of Denver. AP
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