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A greater sage-grouse is seen flying through the Warner Mountains of Oregon. Credit: John Carlson/USFWS

Can the Greater Sage-Grouse Be Kept Off the Endangered Species List?

By Wyatt Myskow

Leslie Hagenstein indicates where the New Fork River flows through her property on Mar. 27. She signed up for a program that pays her to pause irrigation on her land in order to save Colorado River water. Some experts say the System Conservation Pilot Program, or SCPP, is costly and may not be the most effective way to save Colorado River water. Credit: Alex Hager/KUNC

Using Less of the Colorado River Takes a Willing Farmer and $45 Million in Federal Funds

By Alex Hager, KUNC and Heather Sackett, Aspen Journalism

A wolf is seen in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Credit: Jim Peaco/National Park Service

The Torture and Killing of a Wolf, a New Endangered Species Lawsuit and Novel Science Revive Wyoming Debate Over the Predator

By Jake Bolster

A view of the Eagle Butte Coal Mine in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin. Credit: Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images

BLM Ends Future Coal Mining on Powder River Basin Federal Lands

By Jake Bolster

A view of tractors at the Eagle Butte Coal Mine in Gillette, Wyo. Credit: Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images

At State’s Energy Summit, Wyoming Promises to ‘Make Sure Our Fossil Fuels Have a Future’

By Jake Bolster

A view of the Naughton coal-fired power plant in Kemmerer, Wyo. The plant is scheduled to be decommissioned by 2025 and TerraPower plans to build a nuclear plant nearby. Credit: Natalie Behring/Getty Images

Q&A: What’s the Deal with Bill Gates’s Wyoming Nuclear Plant?

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

The Bonneville Environmental Foundation will administer federal grants to Idaho, Montana and Wyoming under the new Solar for All Program. Credit: Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Biden Administration Awards Wyoming $30 Million From New ‘Solar for All’ Grant

By Jake Bolster

Members of the Northern Arapaho Tribe host a local tribal powwow on the eve of a solar eclipse in Riverton, Wyo. on August 20, 2017. Credit: Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via Getty Images

In Wyoming, a Tribe and a City Pursue Clean Energy Funds Spurned by the Governor

By Jake Bolster

Linemen work on a rebuild of Northwestern Energy transmissions lines in Livingston, Montana. Credit: William Campbell/Getty Images

Western States Could Make Billions Selling Renewable Energy, But They’ll Need a Lot More Regional Transmission Lines

By Wyatt Myskow

Bob Martin, who manages hydropower at Glen Canyon Dam, shows the effects of cavitation on a decommissioned turbine on Nov. 2, 2022. When air pockets enter the dam's pipes, they cause structural damage. Water managers recently discovered similar damage in a little-used set of tubes that carry water to the Colorado River. Credit: Alex Hager/KUNC

A Plumbing Issue at This Lake Powell Dam Could Cause Big Trouble for Western Water

By Alex Hager, KUNC

Antelope graze near oil and gas wells on the Jonah Natural Gas Field south of Pinedale, Wyo. Credit: Glenn Asakawa/The Denver Post via Getty Images

Western Conservationists and Industry Each Tout Wins in a Pair of Rulings From the Same Court

By Jake Bolster

Wind turbines generate electricity outside of Cheyenne, Wyo. Credit: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

Wyoming’s Wind Industry Dodged New Taxes in 2024 Legislative Session, but Faces Pushes to Increase What it Pays the State

By Jake Bolster

A mixture of steam and pollutants are emitted from the Naughton coal-fired power plant on Nov. 22, 2022 in Kemmerer, Wyo. Credit: Natalie Behring/Getty Images

Wyoming Considers Relaxing Its Carbon Capture Standards for Electric Utilities, Scrambling Political Alliances on Climate Change and Energy

By Jake Bolster

A man looks out over the Colorado River near Page, Ariz. on Nov. 2, 2022. The seven states that manage the river are divided about how to account for the impacts of climate change in new plans about sharing its water. Credit: Alex Hager/KUNC

Colorado River States Have Two Different Plans for Managing Water. Here’s Why They Disagree

By Alex Hager, KUNC

A sheep grazes among photovoltaic solar panels in the village of Hjolderup, Denmark. Credit: Sergei Gapon/AFP via Getty Images

In Wyoming, Sheep May Safely Graze Under Solar Panels in One of the State’s First “Agrivoltaic” Projects

By Jake Bolster

A truck loaded with coal drives away from the Eagle Butte Coal Mine in the Powder River basin. Credit: Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images

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

Cows graze near a coal-fired power plant on Nov. 22, 2022 in Kemmerer, Wyoming. Credit: Natalie Behring/Getty Images

A Long-Delayed BLM Resource Management Plan in Southwest Wyoming Pits Conservation Against Resource Extraction

By Jake Bolster

Pronghorn migrate in Wyoming. Credit: Joel Berger

A BLM Proposal to Protect Wildlife Corridors Could Restore the West’s ‘Veins and Arteries’

By Adam Goldstein

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