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Jake Bolster

Reporter, Wyoming and the West

Jake Bolster reports on Wyoming and the West for Inside Climate News. Previously, he worked as a freelancer, covering climate change, energy, and the environment across the United States. He holds a Masters in Journalism from Columbia University.

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Tanya Trujillo, then assistant secretary of the Interior for water and science, speaks during an event in California in 2023. Credit: Bureau of Reclamation

As Colorado River States Struggle to Reach Agreement, New Mexico Brings on a Fresh Voice

By Jake Bolster

An emergency exit for Signal Peak Energy’s longwall coal mine in Musselshell County, Montana. Credit: Jake Bolster/Inside Climate News

Planning for Life After Coal Cost a Montana County Commissioner His Seat

By Jake Bolster

After record-low snowpack across the Colorado River Basin, water levels remain low at Lake Powell on April 30, near Page, Ariz. Credit: RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images

Colorado River Faces ‘Devastating Consequences’ If Another Dry Winter Lands, Experts Warn

By Jake Bolster

Tree limbs fall atop a snow-covered car in Boulder, Colo., during one of the largest May snowstorms in decades on May 6. Credit: Mark Makela/Getty Images

New Paper Shows Surges of Concentrated Precipitation Can Lead to Dryer Landscapes

By Jake Bolster

A substation at the coal-fired Naughton power plant in Kemmerer, Wyo. Credit: Natalie Behring/Getty Images

Wyoming’s Largest Utility Joins a New Western Day Ahead Market for Electricity

By Jake Bolster

A view of Dry Fork, one of the nation’s newest coal-fired power plants, in Gillette, Wyo. Credit: Jake Bolster/Inside Climate News

Western Lawmakers Move To Weaken Clean Air Act and Shield Fossil Fuel Companies From Climate Lawsuits

By Jake Bolster

Bison graze near the North Entrance of Yellowstone National Park. Credit: Jacob W. Frank/NPS

Meeting Climate Targets Requires Humanity to Reorient Its Relationship With Nature, New Study Says

By Jake Bolster

An air tanker works to slow the spread of the Dollar Lake Fire as it burns through Wyoming in August 2025. Credit: Kris Bruington/BLM

The Warm, Dry Winter Has Left Firefighters in Wyoming Nervous

By Jake Bolster

Crews work in the forest at the site of the Spring Pine Fire near Bastrop State Park on Monday in Bastrop, Texas. Credit: Aaron E. Martinez/The Austin American-Statesman via Getty Images

This Year’s US Wildfires Have Already Set Records That Could Foreshadow a Smoky, Fiery Summer

By Jake Bolster

Interior Department in Turmoil

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Interior Secretary Doug Burgum walks into the West Wing of the White House on March 6 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

After Trump’s Interior Secretary Transferred Thousands of Staff to His Office, Chaos Followed, Former Workers Say

By Jake Bolster, Peter Aldhous

Signal Peak Energy’s Bull Mountains Mine is the only longwall coal mine in Montana. Aerial support provided by LightHawk.

New Lawsuit Aims to Halt Expansion of a Montana Coal Mine Blamed for Drying up the Land Above It

Story and photos by Jake Bolster

Cars drive over the Central Arizona Canal, which delivers Colorado River water to Central and Southern Arizona, on Dec. 19, 2025. Credit: Kayla Bartkowski/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Colorado River Negotiators Are Nearly Out of Time and Snowpack

By Jake Bolster, Wyatt Myskow

An oil rig drills near Salmon Creek in Pennsylvania's Allegheny National Forest in 2023, where more than 1,000 new oil and gas wells have been approved since October 2006. Credit: Mayra Beltran/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Despite Limited Interest in Drilling on Federal Land, Forest Service ‘Streamlines’ Oil and Gas Leasing Rules

By Jake Bolster

The Dollar Lake Fire broke out near Green River Lakes in the Wind River Mountains in August 2025. Credit: Michael Kodas/Inside Climate News

A Record Wildfire Season Inspires Wyoming to Prepare for an Increasingly Fiery Future

By Jake Bolster

Xcel Energy’s coal-fired Comanche Generating Station in Pueblo, Colo. Credit: RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images

Trump’s Push for Coal in Colorado Could Bring ‘Massive’ Harm to Public Lands and Rural Communities, Advocates Say

By Jake Bolster

Cattle graze on a ranch in Lander County, Nevada. Credit: Jim West/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Are Declining Stocking Rates Underexplored By Scientists?

By Jake Bolster

A grizzly boar walks through the meadow near White Creek in Yellowstone National Park. Credit: Jacob W. Frank/NPS

Could Rescinding The Roadless Rule Make It Harder To Delist Yellowstone Grizzlies?

By Jake Bolster

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