A study plans to remove mountain lions and black bears to boost mule deer.
Natural gas
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Interior cancels oil and gas leases in Montana’s Badger-Two Medicine
The Blackfeet Tribe fought for this decision for more than 30 years.
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How a federal land transfer could give California its key to secession
Fundamental changes in federal land ownership could become more politically feasible than ever.
Posted inDecember 26, 2016: Obama and the West
Obama’s lasting legacies in the West
Under the 44th president, the West re-examined its relationship to energy and the climate.
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Through the years: Here’s what to read on Obama’s presidency
High Country News stories show how Obama wrangled the West.
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Trump’s Cabinet choices reflect deep Koch influence
A rundown of the people with ties to ALEC, the Koch brothers and federal land transfer legislation.
Posted inDecember 12, 2016: How the Park Service is Failing Women
Can Trump undo Obama’s policies?
What the President-elect can — and can’t — do when it comes to water, coal and climate change.
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The twisted economics of the Dakota Access Pipeline
It’s not about energy independence or even climate change. It’s all about profit.
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Missing science, disagreement surrounds fracking report
Pavillion, Wyoming is at the center of a fight over fracking’s risks.
Posted inNovember 28, 2016: A Weird and Perfect Wilderness
Alaska’s gas pipeline dreams
A decades-long plan to deliver the state’s gas reserves to the market remains in purgatory.
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Where the Clean Power Plan will have the most impact
The federal rule would intensify an existing trend toward clean energy.
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What the Clean Power Plan means for you
The U.S. Court of Appeals will hear arguments on the federal carbon plan in the coming weeks.
Posted inSeptember 5, 2016: When the Doctor is Out
Latest: NASA determines methane hotspot is from natural gas production
BACKSTORYA methane “hot spot” over the Four Corners region has puzzled scientists for nearly a decade: Concentrations of the greenhouse gas were far higher than could be accounted for by official inventories from known contributors — an underground coal mine, landfills, and oil and gas infrastructure. So in 2015, NASA scientists began an intensive examination […]
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An electric-power giant is poised to fail
A radical change could be coming to the way electric co-ops across the country do business.
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Where are the fracking fights this fall?
Fracktivists look to exercise local control over energy development this November.
Posted inJuly 25, 2016: Salmon Power
‘Keep It in the Ground’ prompts online oil and gas leasing auctions
Protests against drilling on public lands continue.
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How the Keep it in the Ground movement came to be
A look back at a decade of coverage of anti-fossil fuel protests.
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Judge strikes down BLM fracking rule
Enviros hope for a successful appeal, but the path could be long and windy.
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New hydrocarbon estimates put western Colorado on edge
USGS now says the region has the nation’s second-largest reserves, but a flush market means little will change for now.
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Trump’s contradictory promise: Bring back coal and boost natural gas
Experts say low natural gas prices are the biggest cause of coal’s downturn.