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High Country News in the ’70s

n the 1970s, there was a mad dash to promote U.S. energy independence following the 1973 Arab Oil Embargo. Plans were unveiled to transform the Northern Rockies and Northern Great Plains into the Ruhr Valley of North America, tapping the region’s abundant coal, oil, gas, uranium and oil shale. Activists knit them together by sharing information and hope. There were few environmental journalists back then, and caught the eye of major newspapers that picked up on our stories and shared them with a national audience.

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