ICN Mountain West
Western Conservationists and Industry Each Tout Wins in a Pair of Rulings From the Same Court
By Jake Bolster
Wyoming’s Wind Industry Dodged New Taxes in 2024 Legislative Session, but Faces Pushes to Increase What it Pays the State
By Jake Bolster
In Deep Red Utah, Climate Concerns Are Now Motivating Candidates
By Marcus Baram, Capital & Main
Wyoming Considers Relaxing Its Carbon Capture Standards for Electric Utilities, Scrambling Political Alliances on Climate Change and Energy
By Jake Bolster
Colorado River States Have Two Different Plans for Managing Water. Here’s Why They Disagree
By Alex Hager, KUNC
In Wyoming, Sheep May Safely Graze Under Solar Panels in One of the State’s First “Agrivoltaic” Projects
By Jake Bolster
In $100 Million Colorado River Deal, Water and Power Collide
By Alex Hager, KUNC
How One of the Nation’s Fastest Growing Counties Plans to Find Water in the Desert
By David Condos, KUER
Wyoming, Slow To Take Federal Clean Energy Funds, Gambles State Money on Carbon Sequestration and Hydrogen Schemes to Keep Fossil Fuels Flowing
By Jake Bolster
Utah Legislature Takes Aim at Rights of Nature Movement
By Katie Surma
Environmentalists See Nevada Supreme Court Ruling Bringing State’s Water Management ‘Into the 21st Century’
By Wyatt Myskow
It Could Soon Get a Whole Lot Easier to Build Solar in the Western US
By Wyatt Myskow
A Long-Delayed BLM Resource Management Plan in Southwest Wyoming Pits Conservation Against Resource Extraction
By Jake Bolster
First Uranium Mines to Dig in the US in Eight Years Begin Operations Near Grand Canyon
By Wyatt Myskow
Colorado Town Appoints Legal Guardians to Implement the Rights of a Creek and a Watershed
By Katie Surma
Lake Powell Is Still in Trouble. Here’s What’s Good and What’s Alarming About the Current Water Level
By Dan Gearino
