Items by Sarah Gilman

The Latest: Colorado first state to regulate methane emissions
The Latest: Colorado first state to regulate methane emissions
Some oil and gas companies supported the rules.
Goodbye, Hello
Goodbye, Hello
Board of directors meeting, visits from friends and remembrances.
Ranchers, enviros and officials seek a middle path on public-land grazing
Ranchers, enviros and officials seek a middle path on public-land grazing
Moving beyond stalemate to meaningful reform in Utah.
Troubleweeds: Russian thistle buries roads and homes in southeastern Colorado
Drought brings new dust storms to the geographic heart of the Dust Bowl
Drought brings new dust storms to the geographic heart of the Dust Bowl
Despite an infusion of moisture, pockets of the Southern High Plains have been plagued with dusters and inundated with tumbleweeds.
L.A. is here to stay
L.A. is here to stay
Why would any magazine editor include Los Angeles in a special issue on environmental sustainability?
Mailbox surprise
Mailbox surprise
A long-time reader leaves a generous and humbling gift for HCN; summer visitors.
A delta reborn in drought
A delta reborn in drought
Even as the Southwest teeters on the edge of a radically drier future, a rare opportunity to revive the Colorado River Delta has emerged in an agreement hashed out between Mexico, the U.S. and some of West's most powerful – and thirsty – water agencies.
The Blue Window
The Blue Window
Journeying from redrock desert to an icy wasteland: an essay
EPA drops study linking fracking to Pavillion pollution
The Obama administration appears to be backing off, yet again, in Wyoming
The blue window
Of face paint, nunataks and Alaska's Harding Icefield
BLM fracking rules just got more industry-friendly
Feds weaken a proposal that many enviros say wasn’t strong enough in the first place
Colorado likely to adopt tough new rural renewable energy requirements
Astronomical rate increases unlikely to follow
Could California lead the West on regulating fracking?
The region's original oil state weighs environmental costs and economic benefits
On losing nothing
On losing nothing
Climate change will transform both the Arctic and the Mojave Desert, but for different reasons
Much ado about mud
Supreme Court vindicates timber industry in logging-road runoff case
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