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A family walks through what remains of their grandfather’s house in a neighborhood decimated by the Marshall Fire on Jan. 2, 2022, in Louisville, Colo. Credit: Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images

Climate Disaster Survivors Organize Across America, Turning Common Bonds of Loss Into Action

By Gabe Castro-Root

Heavy vehicles stop moving as a timed detonation brings down a wide coal face at the Buckskin Coal Mine, in Gillette, Wyoming. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg via Getty Images

House Committee Offers Fossil Fuel Industry a ‘Once in a Generation’ Opportunity to Develop on Public Lands

By Jake Bolster

Tata Ash Chemicals, a trona production plant in southwest Wyoming, is betting on a bold energy shift: replacing its coal-fired power with a next-generation microreactor. Credit: Najifa Farhat/Inside Climate News

Wyoming Has Been Slow to Transition From Fossil Fuels, but Is Moving Fast Toward New Nuclear Technologies

By Najifa Farhat

Mica Kantor, a 14-year-old plaintiff, testifies on the second day of the Held v. Montana trial in June 2023. Credit: Richard Forbes/Inside Climate News

In Montana, Republican State Legislators Fight Back After Successful Youth Climate Lawsuit

By Nick Mott

A technician with North American Weather Consultants works on a cloud seeding generator in Ogden, Utah on March 20. Utah has the nation's largest program, and nearby states are watching to see how it adds to the water supply. Credit: Alex Hager/KUNC

Snowflakes, Death Threats and Dollar Signs: Cloud Seeding Is at a Crossroads

By Alex Hager, KUNC

A view of a surface coal mine in the Powder River Basin. Credit: Bureau of Land Management Wyoming

How Will Trump’s Effort to Revitalize Coal Play Out in the Nation’s Most Productive Coal Fields?

By Jake Bolster

A view of the North and South forks of the Little Wind River meet near Ft. Washakie, the site of a new stream gauge. Credit: Jake Bolster/Inside Climate News

New Stream Gauges and Weather Stations Poised to Help Wyoming Tribes Endure Flooding and Drought

By Jake Bolster

Mosquitoes fly over the Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Nevada. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

Climate Change Is Helping Heartworm Spread to Pets in the Mountain West

By Tina Deines

Rolling hills of sage are spotted with oil and gas developments on leased land in Jackson County, Colo. Credit: AAron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post

Amid Questions of Loyalty to Trump, a Longtime Oil and Gas Advocate Withdraws as Nominee to Lead BLM

By Jake Bolster

A meteorologist prepares to release a weather balloon at National Weather Service Headquarters in Sterling, Va. Credit: Benjamin C. Tankersley/The Washington Post via Getty Images

NOAA Cuts Weather Balloon Launches Due to Staff Shortages After DOGE Layoffs

By Dennis Pillion

In Washington Township, Mich., a gas pipeline in wetlands in Stony Creek Metropark. Credit: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

New Study Shows Extreme and Far-Reaching Impacts of Sackett Ruling on Federal Wetland Protections

By Lauren Dalban

Gov. Jared Polis presents his budget for 2025 at the Colorado State Capitol building in Denver on Nov. 1, 2024. Credit: Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post

Can Colorado Keep Its Momentum on Climate Action as the Trump Administration Pulls Back Federal Support?

By Wyatt Myskow

The controversial Pinyon Plain Mine continues to operate within the Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni—the Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument—on Aug. 27, 2024 near the Grand Canyon in Arizona. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

Trump Executive Order Streamlines Mining Permits. Environmentalists Fear What Comes Next

By Wyatt Myskow

A Native American protestor confronts a private security contractor at a work site for the Dakota Access Pipeline, near Cannon Ball, North Dakota, in September 2016. Credit: Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images

What a $660 Million Verdict Means for Greenpeace and the Environmental Movement

By Nicholas Kusnetz

A view of the entrance to a ranch near Dubois, Wyo. Credit: Louise Johns/The Washington Post via Getty Images

‘An Unlikely Coalition’ Failed to Expand Rooftop Solar in Wyoming. Lawmakers Plan to Try Again

By Jake Bolster

A view of a large fracking operation with the Front Range of Colorado in the background in Loveland, Colo. Credit: Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via Getty Images

Colorado Will Require Oil and Gas Companies to Increase Water Recycling for Fracking

By Jake Bolster, Martha Pskowski

The Colorado River flows out of Lake Mead, the nation's largest reservoir, on Dec. 16, 2021. Credit: Alex Hager/KUNC

Questions and Confusion as Trump Pauses Key Funding for Shrinking Colorado River

By Alex Hager, KUNC

People walk through the Red Cliffs National Conservation Area, designated during Obama administration, in Washington County, Utah. Credit: Bob Wick/BLM

New Poll Finds Broad Support for Conservation and Action on Climate Change Across the West

By Jake Bolster

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