The Energy Transition Act could be a model for ambitious policies of the future.
Items by Jonathan Thompson
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.
Some say the Bears Ears shrinkage won’t change anything — they’re wrong.
Secretary Ryan Zinke will be known better for cynicism than conservationism.
The drastically reduced boundaries don’t line up with what the public wants.
In seven years, pipeline incidents have killed nearly 100 people nationwide.
As Nebraska OKs Keystone XL route, a look at U.S. oil spills since 2015.
How the Trump administration has seized mythologies around coal.
If Bears Ears shrinks, it will be to our national cultural detriment.
And in the darkness, bind them: The West’s bid for one big electric grid.
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