Failures to assess risks to Colorado River and ‘numerous NEPA violations’ in project’s impact analysis highlighted.
Federal court derails proposed Utah oil railroad
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Washington to adopt rules protecting farmworkers from wildfire smoke
Some labor advocates say they don’t go far enough.
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EPA to investigate claims of civil rights violations in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
Tribes and environmental justice groups say management of the Delta harms traditional food systems and causes pollution.
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What downwinders inherited at Trinity
In the days of ’Oppenheimer,’ an exhibition advocates expansion of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act.
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How climate science won in the Montana youth climate case
The ruling in Held v. Montana is expected to bolster cases in other states with similar environmental protections in their constitutions.
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More than 200 wildfires require state of emergency, evacuations in Canada’s Northwest Territories
’It’s all just really terrifying.’
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Q&A: Sacramento Homeless Union fights to end encampment sweeps during extreme heat
Activists are invoking emergency legal measures to protect unhoused communities.
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Why you should care about the farm bill
The legislation affects hunger, food security and climate — and it begins expiring next month.
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Meet the beetle threatening Washington’s cherries, hops and other crops
Invasive Japanese beetles are drawn to flowers and fruit. Washington officials are trying to eradicate them from the state.
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Native mental health providers seek to heal boarding school scars with informed and appropriate treatment
As more visibility is brought to the legacy of U.S. boarding schools, Indigenous mental health providers and social workers feel that therapy must address the unique trauma carried by survivors.
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See inside the Grand Canyon region’s new monument
A weeklong journey through the under-documented region, which now has new protections.
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Tribal nations celebrate new monument near the Grand Canyon
How decades of Indigenous advocacy led to the Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni-Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument.
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Extreme heat hits the rural Southwest
How community members keep one another safe.
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Private equity gets into oil and gas
A new report warns of bankruptcies and abandoned wells on Western public land.
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People are starting a lot of fires in the Pacific Northwest
The Forest Service reports 197 human-caused or undetermined starts since the beginning of June.
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People are shooting birds off power lines in the West
Gunshots outnumber electrocution as a cause of death, according to a new study.
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How a mobile-home park saved its community from a corporate buyout
In southwest Colorado, a cooperative and a land trust partnered to preserve affordable housing.
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Consoling spirits
A visit to the sacred Ireichō at the Japanese American National Museum.
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Things We Were Told About the Moon in School
A poem by Dara Yen Elerath.
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‘We have fire all around us and we can’t get out’
What happened when two experienced hikers got caught in the Bolt Creek Fire.