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.
From a Raft in the Grand Canyon, the West’s Shifting Water Woes Come Into View
By Judy Fahys
A Key Nomination for Biden’s Climate Agenda Advances to the Full Senate
By Judy Fahys
Drier Springs Bring Hotter Summers in the Withering Southwest
By Judy Fahys
Global Warming Cauldron Boils Over in the Northwest in One of the Most Intense Heat Waves on Record Worldwide
By Judy Fahys, Bob Berwyn
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
‘America the Beautiful’ Plan Debuts the Biden Administration’s Approach to Conserving the Environment and Habitat
By Katie Surma, Judy Fahys
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
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
Trump’s Forest Service Planned More Logging in the Yaak Valley, Environmentalists Want Biden To Make it a ‘Climate Refuge’
By Judy Fahys
The Petroleum Industry May Want a Carbon Tax, but Biden and Congressional Republicans are Not Necessarily Fans
By Marianne Lavelle, Judy Fahys
What’s On Interior’s To-Do List? A Full Plate of Public Lands Issues—and Trump Rollbacks—for Deb Haaland
By Judy Fahys
Climate Change Ravaged the West With Heat and Drought Last Year; Many Fear 2021 Will Be Worse
By Judy Fahys
Biden’s Pause of New Federal Oil and Gas Leases May Not Reduce Production, but It Signals a Reckoning With Fossil Fuels
By Nicholas Kusnetz, Judy Fahys
