COVID-19 impacts ripple through every sector of the economy.
Items by Jonathan Thompson
But who’s the enemy?
Under a pandemic, Trump backslides pollution and wildlife protection standards.
COVID-19 reverberates across the energy world.
Climate change and unregulated wells are depleting the West’s groundwater reserves.
Why a decisive societal response is needed.
The U.S. is a net exporter of petroleum, so why isn’t it energy independent?
Three years of rollbacks have taken a toll, without delivering real benefits.
Moving land-management HQ out of Washington illustrates the ‘deconstruction of the administrative state.’
Compare the annual waste produced by a coal-burning power plant and a nuclear generating station.
The state faces a future without an industry that’s been very good to it.
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.
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