The close of public comments is marked by familiar dividing lines and surprising feedback from an EPA official.
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Can wolf reintroduction help stave off chronic wasting disease?
Proponents of Colorado’s initiative to reintroduce the predators suggest they could bolster herds against the disease.
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Bay Area communities prepare for ICE raids
Following Trump’s latest threats, the Rapid Response Network in Santa Clara County feels a new sense of urgency.
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The Colorado River needs a long-term plan for drought
Western states bought some time with a historic agreement but still face a hotter, drier future.
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How to Indigenize the Green New Deal and environmental justice
Native nations and activists must have a seat at the table.
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Much of rural America is doomed to decline
Public policy solutions need to grapple with, not ignore, this economic reality.
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Record heat in Alaska fuels wildfires
Anchorage sees 90 F as nearly 120 fires blaze across the state.
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New Wyoming coal company abandons mines and miners
State officials are picking up the pieces after Blackjewel goes belly up.
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Federal and tribal coalitions challenge Canadian mining
‘It’s about British Columbia being a really bad actor as an upstream neighbor that pollutes our water.’
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Nevada teens find community as they navigate homelessness and adulthood together
Clark County has one of the largest unaccompanied homeless youth populations in the nation.
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National parks provide an unsettling view of patriotism
Our nation’s darker past and bright ideas can both be found in the parks.
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How beef colonized the West and America’s dinner plate
The author of a new book explains how beef consolidation in the late 19th Century shapes our ecology, economy and politics.
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New Mexico’s oil boom has made rural roads deadly
As oil wells multiply in the Permian Basin, the influx of heavy vehicles exacerbates risks for those living in the area.
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Seattle will offer residents shelter from the smoke
As climate change fuels fires and warms the city, clean air will be in short supply.
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After a wet winter, will Colorado forest managers increase prescribed burns?
The heavy snowpack could hinder this underused wildfire control tactic.
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Critics are wary of Bureau of Land Management relocation efforts
As the agency eyes a move West, critics say the change would be detrimental to public land policy.
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It’s time to move the Bureau of Land Management out of D.C.
(Most) of those living in the West have the public lands’ best interest at heart.
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Oregon Republicans are hiding to avoid a climate-bill vote
This is the second time the group of state lawmakers have walked out this year.
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California governor apologizes to tribal nations for past atrocities
‘It’s called genocide. There’s no other way to describe it.’
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Bees, trees and a sense of unease
Will mutual dependence mean shared destruction for California’s almonds and bees?