High Country News

$Abrahm Lustgarten on fracking$
Abrahm Lustgarten on fracking

An interview with ProPublica energy and environment reporter Abrahm Lustgarten.

by Cally Carswell, Jun 26, 2011
Activist brings diversity to green orgs

Marcelo Bonta's Center for Diversity & the Environment works to bring people of color into the environmental movement.

by Terri Hansen, Dec 23, 2010
Time to call the gas industry’s bluff

Randy Udall says Colorado needs to act now to collect severance taxes from the natural gas companies that are making a fortune from the state.

by Randy Udall, Feb 04, 2008
Mission critical

With global warming threatening the planet, even environmentalists are looking more kindly at natural gas.

by Randy Udall, Aug 14, 2009
The Latest Bounce

Grazing fees to be cut; Russian drill rigs coming to Colorado; new power plant on Navajo Nation gets big tax break; Washington may become sixth Western state with renewable energy standards

by Jodi Peterson, Feb 20, 2006
Drilling on the green

Residents of Battlement Mesa react to gas drilling in their community.

by Lisa Song, Jun 14, 2010
Chill, baby, chill

The largest drilling boom in Western history is ending as new technologies make it easier to get shale gas from other parts of the country.

by Randy Udall, May 01, 2009
How to deal with oil and gas development

The Oil and Gas Accountability Project has created Oil and Gas at Your Door, a guidebook and Web site for Western landowners confronted by energy development

by Dan Wilcock, Oct 25, 2004
Boulder, Colo., votes for energy independence -- from its utility

After a hard-fought political campaign the town of Boulder passed a ballot initiative allowing it to create its own municipal utility in order to help reach its ambitious environmental goals.

by Nathan Rice, Dec 27, 2011
A letter to a rancher named George Bush

Robert Rowley in New Mexico writes a letter about natural gas to a rancher named George Bush

by Robert Rowley, Sep 08, 2003