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An oil pump jack operates near a suburban neighborhood in Dacono, Colo. Credit: Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via Getty Images

As Activists Mobilize Against Drilling, Oil and Gas Operators Sour on Colorado 

By Jennifer Oldham, Capital & Main

An electric vehicle charges at a shopping mall parking lot in Torrance, Calif. Credit: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

Trump Has Thrown a Wrench Into a National EV Charging Program. Can He Make It Disappear?

By Lee Hedgepeth, Aman Azhar, Jake Bolster, Lisa Sorg, Sarah Mattalian

Pronghorn roam through a natural gas field in the Green River Basin, managed by the Bureau of Land Management, in Southwestern Wyoming. Credit: Tara Boucher/BLM Wyoming

With a Veteran Oil and Gas Lobbyist Nominated To Lead the BLM, Westerners Worry About Wildlife and Renewable Energy

By Jake Bolster

A Grizzly roams through Yellowstone National Park. Credit: Neal Herbert/NPS

After the Feds Kept Grizzlies on the Endangered Species List Last Month, State Leaders Try to Remove Them

By Jake Bolster

Diversion Dam is where Midvale irrigators divert water from the Big Wind River, which regional tribes want to flow at higher volumes past this point. Credit: Jake Bolster/Inside Climate News

Giving a Dam: Wyoming Tribes Push to Control Reservation Water as the State Proposes Sending it to Outside Irrigators

By Jake Bolster

Chris Bowers (right) surveys a site where nonfunctional turf is being replaced on the University of Northern Colorado campus on Jan. 15. The landscaping change will bring water use on that patch of campus down from about 3 million gallons each year to 1 million. Credit: Alex Hager/KUNC

Replacing Grass Can Help Save Water, but Just How Much?

By Alex Hager, KUNC

The Colorado River flows through the Shoshone diversion structure on Jan. 29, 2024. A group trying to purchase Shoshone's water was set to receive $40 million from the federal government. Credit: Alex Hager/KUNC/EcoFlight

Money for the Colorado River Faces an Uncertain Fate Under Trump

By Alex Hager, KUNC

A wind turbine generates electricity at the Block Island Wind Farm off the shores of Rhode Island. Credit: John Moore/Getty Images

Executive Orders on Energy and Climate Have Advocates Across the Nation on Edge

By Dan Gearino, Aman Azhar, Amy Green, Dylan Baddour, Jake Bolster, Keerti Gopal, Kiley Bense, Lauren Dalban, Lisa Sorg, Liza Gross, Marianne Lavelle, Nicholas Kusnetz, Phil McKenna

Susan Nedell stands outside her home that is being rebuilt after it burned in the Marshall fire on Aug. 28, 2023 in Louisville, Colo. Credit: RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images

Wildfire Rebuilds Are an Opportunity to Build More Resilient and Sustainable Homes. But That Comes With Controversy

By Wyatt Myskow

A view of bales in the Great Salt Lake basin. Credit: Brian Richter/Sustainable Waters

To Save the Great Salt Lake, Farmers Will Have to Grow Less Alfalfa

By Wyatt Myskow

A view of an open-pit coal mine in the Powder River Basin outside of Gillette, Wyo. Credit: Carol M. Highsmith/Library of Congress

Federal Grant Complexity Stymies the Energy Transition in Wyoming Coal Country, New Report Finds

By Jake Bolster

David Hester inspects damage to his house after Hurricane Helene made landfall on Sept. 28 in Horseshoe Beach, Fla. Credit: Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images

The Year in Climate: Record Heat, an Election, a Push for Justice and Reasons for Hope

By Dan Gearino, ICN Staff

Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, second from the left, helped Pueblo of Jemez Gov. Peter Madalena, center, unveil a poster showing Valles Caldera National Preserve in north central New Mexico, during the event on December 22 celebrating the settlement upholding the pueblo’s entitlement to its ancestral land, including Banco Bonito, inside the national preserve. Credit: Noel Lyn Smith/Inside Climate News

A Native American Community Regains Its Rights to Land in a New Mexico National Preserve

By Noel Lyn Smith

An installer with Namaste Solar secures panels for a photovoltaic solar array system on the roof of a house in Aurora, Colo. Credit: Andy Cross/The Denver Post via Getty Images

Community Solar Buying Programs Provide Discounts and Protections to Homeowners, but Worry Some Companies

By Tim Drugan

An aerial view of the Uinta Basin oil fields, where a proposed 88-mile railway would connect the oil production of northeastern Utah to the national rail network. Credit: EcoFlight

A Supreme Court Case About a Railway Could Have Widespread Impacts on U.S. Environmental Laws

By Wyatt Myskow

The state of Utah believes it should be given Bureau of Land Management lands, including the San Rafael Swell. Credit: Bob Wick/BLM

Utah’s Quixotic Bid To Wrest Millions Of Acres From The Federal Government

By Kurt Repanshek, National Parks Traveler

Firefighters with the North Fork Fire Protection District add water to burned townhomes on Jan. 1, 2022 after the Marshall Fire swept through Superior, Colo. Credit: Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images

Insurance Insiders Say Regulation and Mitigation Can Keep the Industry from Retreating in Colorado

By Tim Drugan

Hikers set up camp for the evening on June 25, 2020 at Lake Irwin near Crested Butte in Gunnison County, Colo. Credit: RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images

In a Push to Protect Public Lands in Colorado, Outdoor Recreation Gets a Seat at the Table

By Zoë Rom

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