Outdoor industry giants stood up for Bears Ears. Why won’t they stand up for the Borderlands?
Analysis
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.
Conservatives aren’t so keen on conservation.
After decades of court cases have rebuffed federal management, it may take a political fix to restore salmon in the Columbia Basin.
A Yurok Tribe resolution allows cases to be brought on behalf of the river as a person in tribal court.
Energy scholars explain what rescinding methane regulations will mean for the climate and industry.
The John Henry Mine last produced coal in 1999 and has yet to be fully reclaimed.
From Nazi Germany to Norway and El Paso, white nationalists use Indigenous imagery to justify racist violence.
Climate action on public lands would force a reckoning for fossil fuel dependent states and communities.
Timeframes for responding to allegations and more show improvements from ‘zero tolerance’ rhetoric.
‘We’re on a death train, economically.’
As demand shrinks and the industry retracts, counties and the state are in an untenable situation.
Western states bought some time with a historic agreement but still face a hotter, drier future.
Public policy solutions need to grapple with, not ignore, this economic reality.
How will bolstered support for tribal sovereignty and the environment change the U.S.-Canada agreement?
Arguments over state environmental policy impacts ignore broader challenges to rural communities.
Trump administration efforts to privatize and close centers met bipartisan pushback.
Once an allegory for the atomic bomb, the big lizard has come to represent climate change.
The agency failed to consider water use.
U.S. courts rarely favor environmental protections as a right — except when it comes to tribes expressing their treaty rights.
A new U.N. study shows that up to 1 million species risk extinction because humans use up nature much faster than it can be replenished.
Washington blocked a coal terminal under the Clean Water Act. New rules could subvert that authority.
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