Five decades ago, the late Navajo Nation President Peterson Zah described America’s ‘power madness.’
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Yet grazing fees remain puzzlingly low.
Mapping the state of the rails across the region.
There’s a historic reckoning in the Colorado River Basin — and Katie Hobbs is here to play hard ball.
The president has riled up just about everyone with his public-land policies. Maybe that’s a good thing.
Fierce opposition to the project is likely.
Parking lots and big-box store roofs could generate oodles of clean power.
California’s current deluge highlights huge vulnerabilities.
The weather pattern hits the West for a third consecutive winter.
It was a bad year for dams and a good one for ‘green’ metals.
Breaking down population’s role in the environmental impact equation.
The vitality in the vast desert.
A complicated process, explained.
Trumpism and extremism didn’t fly during the 2022 midterms.
The foundational document was flawed from the start.
The ski industry giant wants to build workforce housing in wild sheep habitat.
Now is not the time to loosen mining regulations.
The justices could remove federal protection from 80% of the Southwest’s streams.
The midterm elections promise to be a referendum on Joe Biden — and Donald Trump.
Climate change is wrecking the electricity system.
Greens battle greens over the fate of California’s last nuke plant.
Growing less hay is the only way to keep the river’s water system from collapsing
Historic political action, but is it enough?
Cleaning up the west could be as lucrative as wrecking it.
A closer look at the good and the bad of specific provisions in the historic climate bill, the Inflation Reduction Act.
A break down of the Inflation Reduction Act.
An unusually rainy Southwest summer is welcome — but much more is needed to end the water crisis.
How climate change makes wildfire more likely to happen all year round.
Filling the economic void left by the extraction economy by healing the land.
After New Mexico’s record-breaking fires, the politics of wildfire are morphing into weird configurations.
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