A five-year fight over a few dozen clams in Washington highlights the inconsistent rights of Indigenous tribes.
Analysis
A working group calls for reforms in advance of a green metals boom.
Rounding up the Biden administration’s ups and downs on land policy.
Climate change and the urban heat islands take their toll from Phoenix to Portland.
Now is not the time to loosen mining regulations.
The High Court is set to hear a case that will affect thousands of Native kids. Is it qualified to judge?
The justices could remove federal protection from 80% of the Southwest’s streams.
Climate change is wrecking the electricity system.
Greens battle greens over the fate of California’s last nuke plant.
$720 million goes directly to tribal nations, but compromises raise questions.
A break down of the Inflation Reduction Act.
Chi’chil Biłdagoteel exemplifies the larger struggle tribes face over protecting off-reservation, culturally important lands.
There are still many ways to shut down major polluters — including some options the agency isn’t using.
After New Mexico’s record-breaking fires, the politics of wildfire are morphing into weird configurations.
The administration resumes oil and gas leasing — and fixes a dysfunctional system in the process.
Drought and demand threaten a critical component of the Western grid.
The high court is taking up an Idaho case that could obliterate federal protection for much of the West’s waters.
The agency under-counted abandoned wells by more than half, which means the effort covers only a fraction of the cost.
The new president sacrificed bold executive action to try to win over Congress.
The film ‘Don’t Look Up’ turns climate change into an allegorical comet.
Aging culverts block salmon migration between freshwater streams and the Pacific Ocean.
The nearly 150-year old law allows mining companies to extract resources like copper and lithium royalty-free.
The act is the New Deal redux, with a splash of ecosystem restoration.
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