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West Obsessed: Trump’s cross-purposed energy policy
The staff of High Country News discuss the inherent paradoxes in the president-elect’s campaign promises.
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Obama’s rush to the end
Keeping track of rulemaking, policy decisions and other last actions before the Trump administration’s inauguration.
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In New Mexico, a way out of the boom-bust cycle?
Lea County tries a different formula for rural success.
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For fossil fuel-reliant towns, a solar alternative grows
A rural solar movement is growing, which focuses on local resilience.
Posted inNovember 14, 2016: The Long View
Insights from a climate oasis
Author Kathleen Alcalá on learning to become an activist.
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Wyoming needs to stop stalling wind power
What’s at stake with the Republican push to tax renewable energy companies
Posted inOctober 3, 2016: Purple Rain
Dark money is re-shaping Arizona’s energy fights
The 2010 Citizens United decision is affecting elections on the ground.
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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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A couple living off the grid fought water law — and won
The decision could upend a Colorado rule that goes back 150 years.
Posted inAugust 22, 2016: 100
Nuclear power divides California’s environmentalists
Is the closure of the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant good or bad for the climate?
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Podcast: The cult of Tesla
What is it about Tesla and Elon Musk that has attracted such fierce devotion from so many people?
Posted inSeptember 5, 2016: When the Doctor is Out
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.
Posted inAugust 8, 2016: Line of Descent
See wind power’s eerie beauty
A new exhibit, Harnessing the Wind, looks at Western landscapes now marked by wind turbines.
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Will a bigger energy grid make way for renewables?
Utilities are embracing California’s bid to expand its grid, but states aren’t so sure.
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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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Are Hillary Clinton’s clean energy goals achievable?
Before clinching the nomination, she outlined her ambitions for public lands and renewables.
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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.
Posted inMay 16, 2016: Grizzly Face-Off
Latest: New wind farm releases plan to mitigate bird deaths
Renewable energy installations can cause thousands of bird deaths but have been slow to respond.
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New renewable energy projects may find opportunity in old transmission lines
A Montana wind energy project plans to make use of existing infrastructure built for coal.