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Judy Fahys

Judy Fahys

Reporter, Mountain West, National Environmental Reporting Network

Judy Fahys has reported on the West for decades from Washington, D.C., and Salt Lake City. After covering the environment, politics and business at the Salt Lake Tribune, she fell in love with audio storytelling as the environment and public lands reporter for NPR Utah/KUER. Previously, she spent an academic year as a Knight Science Journalism fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, High Country News and Outside magazine and aired on NPR. She serves on the board of the Society of Environmental Journalists.

Rep. John Curtis, R-Utah, speaks during the press conference introducing the Republican Climate Caucus outside of the Capitol on Wednesday, June 23, 2021. Credit: Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

Q&A: A Republican Congressman Hopes to Spread a New GOP Engagement on Climate from Washington, D.C. to Glasgow

By Judy Fahys

Sandstone formations are shown here in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument on May 10, 2017 outside Boulder, Utah. Credit: George Frey/Getty Images

Restoring Utah National Monument Boundaries Highlights a New Tactic in the Biden Administration’s Climate Strategy

By Judy Fahys

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) catch and an elevator to go to the Senate Chamber to vote, in the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

With Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s Snubbing of the Democrats’ Reconciliation Plans, Environmental Advocates Ask, ‘Which Side Are You On?’

By Judy Fahys

In this aerial image from a drone, tug boats tow the semi-submersible drilling platform Noble Danny Adkins through the Port Aransas Channel into the Gulf of Mexico on Dec. 12, 2020 in Port Aransas, Texas. Credit: Tom Pennington/Getty Images

Judge’s Order Forces Interior Department to Revive Drilling Lease Sales on Federal Lands and Waters

By Judy Fahys

Ian McCammon, the writer's spouse, rows the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon National Park, here amidst ancient Vishnu schist in May. The trip offers a window into deep time and recent history. The needs of recreational boaters, wildlife, the canyon ecology and water users is part of an ongoing conversation that has been made more contentious because of drought, water shortages and global warming. Credit: Judy Fahys/Inside Climate News

From a Raft in the Grand Canyon, the West’s Shifting Water Woes Come Into View

By Judy Fahys

Tracy Stone-Manning, President Joe Biden's nominee for Director of the Bureau of Land Management, swears-in during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee in Washington on Tuesday, June 8, 2021. Credit: Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

A Key Nomination for Biden’s Climate Agenda Advances to the Full Senate

By Judy Fahys

In an aerial view, polygonal blocks of giant desiccation cracks (GDCs), as geologists have dubbed them, are seen near Red Lake on June 28, 2021 north of Kingman, Arizona during an exceptional drought. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

Drier Springs Bring Hotter Summers in the Withering Southwest

By Judy Fahys

Austun Wilde rests with her two dogs at a cooling center in the Oregon Convention Center on June 27, 2021 in Portland, Oregon. Record breaking temperatures lingered over the Northwest during a historic heatwave this weekend. Credit: Nathan Howard/Getty Images

Global Warming Cauldron Boils Over in the Northwest in One of the Most Intense Heat Waves on Record Worldwide

By Judy Fahys, Bob Berwyn

Long time coal miner Billy Griffith pauses while working at a coal prep plant on May 19, 2017 outside the city of Welch, West Virginia. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

As the US Pursues Clean Energy and the Climate Goals of the Paris Agreement, Communities Dependent on the Fossil Fuel Economy Look for a Just Transition

By Judy Fahys

View of Wild Goose Island in Saint Mary Lake at sunrise in Glacier National Park, Montana, United States. Credit: Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images

‘America the Beautiful’ Plan Debuts the Biden Administration’s Approach to Conserving the Environment and Habitat

By Katie Surma, Judy Fahys

Nancy Bitsue, an elderly member of the Navajo Nation, receives her monthly water delivery in the town of Thoreau on June 6, 2019 in Thoreau, New Mexico. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

The Pandemic Exposed the Severe Water Insecurity Faced by Southwestern Tribes

By Judy Fahys

A New Program Like FDR’s Civilian Conservation Corps Could Help the Nation Fight Climate Change and Transition to Renewable Energy

By Judy Fahys

U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland tours near ancient dwellings along the Butler Wash trail during a visit to Bears Ears National Monument Thursday, April 8, 2021, near Blanding, Utah. Credit: AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, Pool

The First Native American Cabinet Secretary Visits the Land of Her Ancestors and Sees Firsthand the Obstacles to Compromise

By Judy Fahys

In the West, Signs in the Snow Warn That a 20-Year Drought Will Persist and Intensify

By Bob Berwyn, Judy Fahys

When an Oil Company Profits From a Pipeline Running Beneath Tribal Land Without Consent, What’s Fair Compensation?

By Judy Fahys

Yaak Valley. Photo by Anthony South, Yaak Landscape Photography, Yaak Valley Forest Council

Trump’s Forest Service Planned More Logging in the Yaak Valley, Environmentalists Want Biden To Make it a ‘Climate Refuge’

By Judy Fahys

Gina McCarthy, the White House National Climate Advisor, speaks at the Queen theater on December 19, 2020 in Wilmington, DE. Credit: Joshua Roberts/Getty Images

The Petroleum Industry May Want a Carbon Tax, but Biden and Congressional Republicans are Not Necessarily Fans

By Marianne Lavelle, Judy Fahys

U.S. Rep. Deb Haaland (D-NM), at the U.S. Capitol in January 2019.

What’s On Interior’s To-Do List? A Full Plate of Public Lands Issues—and Trump Rollbacks—for Deb Haaland

By Judy Fahys

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