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Results for keyword: energy

  • Solar flip-flops and fish stories

    BLM flip-flops on solar and expedites oil and gas; Western Governors’ Association talks about energy; more fossil fuel risks; good (and bad) salmon news.

  • An ancient place to wonder about our survival

    Andy Gulliford delights in the vast Canyon of the Ancients National Monument-- a living museum subject to increased gas drilling.

  • When you’re rich, you can dream

    Bill Sniffin is pleased that Wyoming is spending its energy earnings wisely, but he believes that even more could be done with the money before the boom’s over.

  • Boom! Boom!

    An energy boom of unprecedented proportions is transforming western Colorado towns like Rifle, which just recently recovered from the last big energy boom – and a catastrophic bust.

  • Guarding Galisteo

    Pushing the limits of local control over energy companies

  • A bad idea hits the gas pumps

    Dustin Heron Urban has declared war on the little black stickers at gas stations that announce the availability of ethanol.

  • A political speech the West needs to hear

    High Country News imagines – and delivers – the kind of speech about our energy future that the West needs to hear from its next president.

  • Wyoming hits a green roadblock

    Bill Sniffin says the state called the “Saudi Arabia of coal” may find its product less desirable in the face of global warming.

  • An octopus wants to eat the West

    Pepper Trail says a proposed energy corridor for the region will chew up huge amounts of public and private land: Comments are due by Feb. 14.

  • You can’t stop nature

    Pepper Trail warns us that we continue to tinker with nature at our peril.

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