An AI server farm tsunami threatens to overwhelm the West’s power grid and water supplies.
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The nation’s energy dominance falters
Trump is killing clean energy, and it’s not even helping fossil fuels.
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The dismantling of the Forest Service
The Trump administration’s plans would remake the agency and public lands. The deadline to comment is Sept. 30.
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Trump looks to suffocate public lands
The administration and Congress divert funds away from conservation.
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MAGA and the developers are coming for your public lands
Sen. Mike Lee slips federal land privatization provision into Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill.”
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A proposed Utah uranium mine gets the Trump treatment
Feds approve contested facility in just 11 days.
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Can Trump bring back ‘clean, beautiful coal’?
The fossil fuel-fetish once again trumps economics and common-sense.
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Trump’s unprecedented attack on America
We need an army of Raúl Grijalvas to stem the flood of ‘bullshit’ emanating out of the White House.
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Trump and Musk take aim at the rural West
Spending cuts hurt communities, economies and public lands.
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AI on public lands and Biden’s environmental legacy
The 46th president finished his term in customary contradictory style.
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Our imperiled public lands
President-elect Trump, a Republican-dominated Congress and Utah launch an all-out assault on environmental protection.
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Montana’s Jon Tester might lose. Here’s why that matters
What the Senate contest says about the unexpected shift in Western politics.
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Kamala Harris tries to navigate the convoluted politics of oil and gas
Drill, Democrats, drill?
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Utah wants your public land — for more roads
The state wants to build a highway through tortoise habitat.
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Grabbing public land in the name of housing
Have politicians finally found a way to take public land out of the public’s hands?
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Data centers could set back climate progress
AI, cryptocurrency “mining” and our digital lifestyles imperil the energy transition — and the planet.
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Trump vs. Biden on the climate
The next presidential election will have huge ramifications for the planet.
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Is Biden a public-lands protector?
The administration makes the biggest land-management moves in a half century.
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Cattle are drinking the Colorado River dry
Balancing Western water demand and supply will alter the region’s landscape.
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The good, the bad and the ugly of the state legislative season
While Congress does nothing, Western state lawmakers pass a flurry of consequential and/or crazy — bills.