A new report details the downsides of tourism and population booms – and what communities can do about it.
Items by Nick Bowlin
Local communities want to electrify, but gas interests have other ideas.
K.P. Kauffman said that penalties could result in a large bankruptcy, leaving well cleanup to the state.
The state’s financial assurance process called ‘the strongest in the nation.’
The environmental nonprofit’s work environment is under scrutiny after multiple unfair labor submissions.
State investigators reveal that the company did not follow basic safety protocols.
After Southwestern states failed to cut a deal, the Interior Department took it easy on them.
After a controversial merger put the company in the hands of Barrick Gold Corp, employees say the shift has incentivized production over worker safety.
In Colorado, a sale of 110 low-producing oil wells illustrates a hot potato effect, and how funding remediation eventually comes from the public.
One of the authors of the recent U.N. climate report says getting urban development right is crucial to addressing the climate crisis.
The decision affects the local economy and air quality — and could create an opening for renewable energy.
The agency under-counted abandoned wells by more than half, which means the effort covers only a fraction of the cost.
In 2019, two gold-mining giants joined forces, with huge consequences for the Northern Nevada community and economy.
Once-affordable towns near Jackson Hole have become real estate magnets since the pandemic.
Numerous issues around equity and the plan’s rollout loom.
As the state tries to reform its relationship to drilling, an expensive task awaits.
Water availability is going from bad to worse in the seven states that rely on the drought-stricken river.
The state relies on oil and gas revenue, but the industry faces an uncertain future.
How a group of nonresident homeowners tried to influence a rural Colorado election.
One of the nation’s largest school districts is trying to provide laptops and Wi-Fi to more than 300,000 students.
Laura Paskus’s new book examines wildfire, drilling on the Navajo Nation and climate grief.
How the country’s oldest organizing group won COVID-19 relief for undocumented immigrants in California.
A consecuencia del COVID-19 algunas ciudades de California están creando protecciones para los arrendatarios.
In the wake of COVID-19, some California cities are introducing tenant protections.
William Perry Pendley had his tenure extended in early May.
According to documents obtained by High Country News, the BLM bypassed normal processes to provide pandemic relief.
Be safe, dear friends.
But virus fears and travel restrictions could impact big game season in the fall.
Betsy Gaines Quammen’s new book looks at the Bundy family and religion’s connection to the Western landscape.
As COVID-19 closes in, a rural doctor awaits the inevitable.
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