ICN Mountain West

In Arizona, Utilities and State Regulators Double Down on Fossil Fuels and Higher Costs Despite Residents’ Opposition

The Trump administration has terminated billions in clean-energy funding, while the state’s utilities commission is proposing to rescind energy-efficiency and renewables standards, as Arizona’s biggest utilities propose rate hikes.

By Wyatt Myskow

Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is Yet Again Under Threat, This Time From Congress

By Wyatt Myskow

A Record Wildfire Season Inspires Wyoming to Prepare for an Increasingly Fiery Future

By Jake Bolster

Trump’s Push for Coal in Colorado Could Bring ‘Massive’ Harm to Public Lands and Rural Communities, Advocates Say

By Jake Bolster

Wyoming County Approves Construction of What Could Become the Largest Data Center in US

By Leigh Reagan Smith

Are Declining Stocking Rates Underexplored By Scientists?

By Jake Bolster

The Environmental and Cultural Benefits of Restoring the American Prairie

Interview by Paloma Beltran, Living on Earth

More Children Are Powering Their Own Wheels to School as Part of ‘Bike Buses’

By Tina Deines

An Idaho Bird Research Station Rises From the Ashes of a Wildfire

By William von Herff

The Year in Climate: Attacks on Science, the Start of Trump’s Second Term and Surging Electricity Demand Foreshadow a Future Filled with Uncertainty

By Dan Gearino, ICN Staff

Could Rescinding The Roadless Rule Make It Harder To Delist Yellowstone Grizzlies?

By Jake Bolster

NCAR, Major Climate Research Center, Targeted for Closure in Trump Dispute with Colorado

By Marianne Lavelle

Hope—and Many Fears—Follow in the Wake of Trump’s Plan to Transform Wildland Firefighting

By Kiley Price

Wyoming Ranchers Hoping Solar Can Lower Costs Say Utilities and the State Stand in Their Way

Story and photos by Jake Bolster

Trump Administration’s Threats to Shrink or Eliminate National Monuments Could Endanger Drinking Water for Millions

By Wyatt Myskow

‘Renewable’ No More: The Trump Administration Renames the National Renewable Energy Laboratory

By Dan Gearino

In Burned Forests, the West’s Snowpack Is Melting Earlier

By Mitch Tobin, The Water Desk

Reintroduced Carnivores’ Impacts on Ecosystems Are Still Coming Into Focus

By Jake Bolster

‘It’s Not Too Late’: New Cornell Study Maps the Environmental Cost of AI and How Policy Could Limit the Damage

By Carl David Goette-Luciak