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New Tool Maps the Health Impacts of Toxic Air Pollutants Released With Methane in Super-Emitter Events

When oil and gas infrastructure leaks the potent greenhouse gas methane, it also releases toxic air contaminants that have escaped notice, until now.

By Liza Gross

A Geothermal Network in Colorado Could Help A Rural Town Diversify Its Economy

By Phil McKenna, Jake Bolster

Can Colorado Recycle Toxic Water from Oil and Gas Drilling Without Increasing Emissions?

Story by Jake Bolster, photos by Lee Pruitt

Uranium Company Receives Wyoming’s First Fast-Tracked Mining Permits

By Jake Bolster

BLM Calls New Oil and Gas Rules ‘Noncontroversial,’ Exempts Them From Public Comment

By Jake Bolster

Republican Excitement for Wyoming Rare Earth Mining Contradicts the Party’s Disdain for Renewables

By Jake Bolster

The south and west reaches of Lonesome Lake are visibly shallow in this July 2025 photo taken while descending from Jackass Pass. Long reputed to have quality issues related to human waste, the Shoshone National Forest lake is being examined for an E. coli impairment after regulators initially detected fecal bacteria levels several hundred times more than is believed to be safe. Credit: Mike Koshmrl/WyoFile

Wyoming’s Crowded Lonesome Lake Tops EPA’s National Survey for Fecal Contamination

By Mike Koshmrl, WyoFile

EPA Tries to Stop Closure of Colorado Coal Plants After Meeting With Colorado Springs Utilities

By Jake Bolster

Brittany Staie, with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, gathers samples of vegetables that are being grown at the NREL agrivoltaic solar garden in Golden, Colo. Credit: Werner Slocum/NREL

In the Sweltering Southwest, Planting Solar Panels in Farmland Can Help Both Photovoltaics and Crops

By Tina Deines

Trump Move to Increase Coal Mining in the Powder River Basin Will Worsen Climate Change, Experts Warn

By Jake Bolster

The image shows forested land in fall colors in Utah

How Did the Housing Crisis Revitalize Efforts by Western Republicans to Sell Off Public Lands?

By Zoë Rom

Department of Justice Gives Trump Go-Ahead to Eliminate National Monuments

By Wyatt Myskow

Colorado River Basin Aquifers Are Declining Even More Steeply Than the River, New Research Shows

By Wyatt Myskow

Supreme Court Backs a Controversial Railroad in Utah for Carrying Oil

By Lisa Sorg

Locals Oppose ‘Insane’ Plan to Sell 500,000 Acres of Public Lands for Housing in Nevada and Utah

By Wyatt Myskow

Wyoming Begins Exploring Voluntary Water Conservation Programs

By Jake Bolster

A deer roams in front of a wind farm on a private ranch near Kevin, Mont. Credit: William Campbell-Corbis via Getty Images

Property Rights Take Center Stage as Montana Grapples With Wind Development

By Karin Kirk

Skiers descend Arapahoe Basin Ski Area in Colorado on May 4. Snowpack across the mountains that supply the Colorado River is far below normal for this time of year. Forecasts call for 55 percent of average runoff into Lake Powell, the nation's second-largest reservoir. Credit: Alex Hager/KUNC

A Dry Winter on the Colorado River Has Big Reservoirs on Track for Trouble

By Alex Hager, KUNC

New PacifiCorp Forecast Sees More Fossil-Fueled Electricity. How Will That Affect Western Energy Jobs?

By Jake Bolster

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