How energy companies and states are navigating federal policy that’s hostile to wind.
Donald Trump
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Acknowledging the hands that feed us
Narsiso Martinez aims to dignify farmworkers through his artwork
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The messy reality of feeding Alaska
After Trump threatened Canada, a writer discovers the uncertainty of the state’s food supply chain.
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How an immigration raid reshaped meatpacking — and America
In 2006, large-scale ICE raids in Greeley, Colorado, and elsewhere, triggered changes to the center of the country that fed today’s nativist politics.
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Trump looks to suffocate public lands
The administration and Congress divert funds away from conservation.
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How Interior is using environmental laws to suppress renewable energy
The Trump administration is turning environmentalists’ legal playbook against them.
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The Trump team sets double standard on migratory bird rules
The administration said it will go hunting for cases of wind energy companies unintentionally killing migratory birds — something it has long argued is not a violation of federal law.
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‘Help is not on the way’
As fire season ramps up, thousands of Forest Service firefighting positions are vacant.
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An Interior Department veteran looks to the future
Jacob Malcom, founder of Next Interior, shares his fears for the agency and his hopes for a post-Trump reconstruction.
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In Wyoming, forestry work is female
In the wake of DOGE cuts, an all-female ‘Forest Corps’ is filling federal agency gaps for Wyoming trail projects.
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The national parks are not OK
A former national park supervisor explains how toilets may be clean this summer, but the parks themselves are actually ‘hollowed out.’
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Trump administration budget cuts wreak havoc on trail maintenance
As tourism season begins, trail crews are facing disruptions in key trail maintenance projects.
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Mass layoffs can move forward, with devastating impacts for conservation and science
‘Shortsighted’ cuts could eliminate bird banding program, federal bee research and much more.
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See what trail cams captured about Borderlands wildlife
Alongside stunning footage, scientists found that the border wall deters wildlife.
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Western states step up to save their wetlands
The West’s vital wetlands are in trouble — but states are working to safeguard them.
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Politics and science can mix
The time for trying to remain neutral has passed.
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Necesitamos científicos-activistas
La política y la ciencia pueden mezclarse.
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In Albuquerque, developers are turning old motels into affordable housing
Once-dilapidated buildings are finding new life as homes for immigrants and other working-class New Mexicans.
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The Trump administration is asking park rangers to rewrite history
And some national park site staffers are pushing back.
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Public land sale a ‘frontal assault on tribal treaty rights’
Senate Republicans’ proposed legislation could have unique impacts on tribal nations.