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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

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

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