Political protest works best with prolonged effort.
How to make the People’s Climate March matter
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Week in review: April 21
Yucca is back, Chaffetz is out (for now), plus a game of Follow the Beaver.
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Trump’s administration blocks drilling near a national park
The president’s commitment to oil and gas development gets tested.
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Republicans shy away from town halls
Fleeing shouting matches, some politicians are changing the way they talk to constituents.
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West Obsessed: Early days of the Trump administration
Trump has made clear his domestic agenda. What do his energy policies mean for the West?
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People are grizzly food — and that’s OK
Our species can still get schooled on the food chain.
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Public banking goes to pot
California activists turn to the cannabis industry to help launch the nation’s first public bank in nearly a century.
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How Montana charts a path for sanctuary cities suing Trump
In an unlikely twist, a gun law arms opponents of Trump’s immigration policy.
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Why we need methane rules
I worked in the oil and gas industry. Volunteer emission controls don’t work.
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Without a drought, California takes stock
Infrastructure issues, dry wells and other troubles still linger across the Golden State.
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Should courts defer to the expertise of agencies?
Our new Supreme Court justice doesn’t think so.
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Suburbanites reckon with arcane drilling law
On Colorado’s Front Range, companies can extract oil and gas from private land — without homeowners’ permission.
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Jury deliberates in 2014 Bundy standoff trial
Cliven Bundy’s sway over his followers featured prominently in first of three trials.
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Week in review: April 14
Water to flow in Oroville spillway, Bertha breaks through and a dinosaur for Moab.
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Republicans set their sights on the EPA’s science
The federal agency that regulates our environment may soon have less data to work with.
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Wyoming can have cyanide bombs — but Idaho can’t
One state moves to protect livestock while another wants to use them on predators.
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Latest: Mixed progress for Park Service on harassment
Interior Department clears former Yosemite superintendent of discrimination — and reports evidence for sexual harassment at Yellowstone.
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Why I’m cheering golf’s steep decline
Thank millennials and a poor economy for the sport’s falling popularity.
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Land transfer advocates steer their focus to monuments
A transfer movement moves to rescind monuments and weaken the Antiquities Act.
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Two factions face off over Grand Staircase-Escalante
A community in gridlock over the monument’s future.