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  • Worlds converge in energy's shadow

    Photographer Jared Boyd spends a day with Navajo Alice Benally, who lives less than a mile from the Four Corners Power Plant but only received electricity last year

    by Jonathan Thompson, Aug 07, 2006

  • The push is on for 'clean coal'

    Led by California, Western states are encouraging the energy industry to move toward cleaner coal technology

    by Ray Ring, May 01, 2006

  • Meet Idaho's Revolutionaries

    In their own words, some of the Magic Valley citizens who fought the Sempra coal plant describe the uprising and how they got involved in it

    by Ray Ring, May 01, 2006

  • Spinning coal into gasoline

    Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer is eager to build a synfuels plant to turn coal into diesel, but it will neither easy nor cheap to make gas gasification a reality in the West

    by Samuel Western, Nov 13, 2006

  • The hidden costs of our coal habit

    In Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America’s Energy Future, Jeff Goodell reveals how the sausage is made when it comes to the primary source of America’s electricity.

    by Allen Best, Apr 16, 2007

  • The Winds of Change

    Colorado citizens voted last November to increase their state’s reliance on power from the wind and sun, but King Coal still rules the state, and the White House seems determined to keep it on the throne

    by Laura Paskus, May 02, 2005
  • Clean coal is an oxymoron

    Clean coal is an oxymoron

    Greg Gordon says Montana's governor, Brian Schweitzer, may sound like a populist, but he's beholden to King Coal.

    by Greg Gordon, Sep 26, 2008

  • Western utilities beware: Coal is a risky business

    The writer says people are mobilizing to defeat a proposed 750-megawatt coal-fired power plant in Pueblo, Colorado

    by Leslie Glustrom, Aug 23, 2004

  • Battle line on the northern border

    U.S. officials, federal agencies, and even Condoleezza Rice are trying to stop a Canadian coal mine near Montana's Flathead Basin.

    by Michelle Blank, May 09, 2007

  • California, here we come

    California has a lot to teach the Interior West – particularly about clean energy and water conservation

    by Paul Larmer, May 01, 2006
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