The controversial parcels are the first auctioned online in New Mexico.
Oil
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Breaking down Trump’s Dakota Access decision
The lawyerly memo sends a strong message to green light the pipeline.
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Making sense of President Trump’s energy plan
Experts say his plan to bring back coal and increase oil and gas defies reason.
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How Standing Rock blew up
In a short time, a tribal concern became a massive movement.
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Standing Rock’s men at war
By challenging our myths of the West and its warriors, Native men find their voice.
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What Standing Rock meant for those who took part
Protesters from afar didn’t just take a stand in North Dakota — they brought the movement back home.
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Colorado’s controversial plan to kill predators
A study plans to remove mountain lions and black bears to boost mule deer.
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Interior cancels oil and gas leases in Montana’s Badger-Two Medicine
The Blackfeet Tribe fought for this decision for more than 30 years.
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How a federal land transfer could give California its key to secession
Fundamental changes in federal land ownership could become more politically feasible than ever.
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‘New Mexico’s DAPL’ is dead
The pipeline would have carried crude oil drilled around Chaco Culture National Historic Park.
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Canada’s pipeline plans run afoul of its climate goals
Environmentalists on both sides of the border are gauging Canada’s commitment to the Paris Agreement.
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Through the years: Here’s what to read on Obama’s presidency
High Country News stories show how Obama wrangled the West.
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Trump’s Cabinet choices reflect deep Koch influence
A rundown of the people with ties to ALEC, the Koch brothers and federal land transfer legislation.
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Feds withheld key documents from Standing Rock Sioux
Still, Trump’s election reduces chances that the Dakota Access pipeline will be permanently blocked.
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We talked to protesters at Standing Rock. Here’s what they learned.
What protesters are thinking as crowds dissipate and cold seizes camp.
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Can Trump undo Obama’s policies?
What the President-elect can — and can’t — do when it comes to water, coal and climate change.
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Plans falter for West Coast coal terminals
Coal companies look to Asia, but face port challenges.
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The twisted economics of the Dakota Access Pipeline
It’s not about energy independence or even climate change. It’s all about profit.
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Pipeline protesters seek refuge from the cold
A dispatch from Prairie Knights Casino, now an outpost of the Standing Rock protests.
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West Obsessed: The view from inside Standing Rock’s camps
In a special episode, we talk to reporter Tay Wiles, who is in North Dakota reporting on DAPL protests.