The state faces a future without an industry that’s been very good to it.
Items by Jonathan Thompson
Species extinction, near-constant wildfire and widespread drought are a few dangers William Perry Pendley might consider instead.
More mechanized traffic in already crowded parks is another Trump administration gift to industry and Utah politicians.
A unified grid would allow for easier sharing of wind and solar power.
‘We’re on a death train, economically.’
(Most) of those living in the West have the public lands’ best interest at heart.
The agency failed to consider water use.
Energy industry lobbying could lead to more mining from Bears Ears to Wyoming.
The Energy Transition Act could be a model for ambitious policies of the future.
Without a just transition, the Navajo Generating Station closure will have harmful consequences.
Where coal-state Sen. John Barrasso got it wrong in a recent New York Times op-ed.
Rural areas can be hit hardest, but many small-town papers persevere.
Xcel Energy says it wants to ‘step up and do more’ to reduce greenhouse gases.
Current drilling remains a shadow of the frenzy that occurred under Obama.
A new generation of environmentalists is learning to stop worrying and love atomic power.
Trump’s approval of the oil pipeline failed to account for environmental impacts.
Lydia Millet’s new book documents modern-day America from Los Angeles.
Be it a wet or a dry year, the water rich in Colorado’s North Fork Valley take their share.
Property rights lawyer Karen Budd-Falen will give legal counsel on wilderness, wildlife and many of the policies she’s spent her career attacking.
Without emissions regulations, the ‘clean’ fossil fuel is as dirty as coal.
How ‘America First’ often puts the West last.
In a heavy-handed directive, the Department of Energy caters to industry barons.
Rumors that a popular tourist train sparked the fire have forced a reckoning.
A 2015 spill that turned the waterway orange is a reminder of mining’s disastrous legacy.
The way air travel has devolved says something awful about humans.
Newly released documents show that locals had little voice in monument decisions.
Indigenous activists try to quell a rising tide of oil and gas exploration in Chaco Canyon.
When it comes to monuments, Utah lawmakers have conflicts of interest.
Even without wholesale land transfers, public lands are already being conveyed to industry.
The West’s uranium boom brought dozens of mills to the banks of the Colorado River — where toxic waste was dumped irresponsibly.
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