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Caroline Llanes/Rocky Mountain Community RadioNEPA regulates how federal agencies assess and report the environmental impacts of big projects, and provides for public participation. But new Trump administration rules and a Supreme Court case could weaken the law’s ability to provide transparency and environmental protections. -
Mark Easter/PG1CT22619Fort Collins ecologist Mark Easter talks regenerative agriculture, carbon footprints, and the role of western farmers in tackling the climate crisis in his new book The Blue Plate: A Food Lover’s Guide to Climate Chaos.
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The Trump Administration is directing federal agencies like the Department of the Interior to ramp up mining operations on federal public lands. The order singles out copper, uranium, potash, and gold. -
Poll finds two-thirds of Americans support clean energy transition, but there’s a rural-urban divideAbout 1 in 3 Americans thinks global warming is a growing problem, but that sentiment isn’t as strong in some less urban Mountain West states, such as Wyoming and Utah. -
Freshman Representative Jeff Hurd (R-Colo.) is sponsoring a bill that would require Bureau of Land Management field offices across the west to adopt plans that would open up more lands to oil and gas drilling. -
The debate over whether to keep federal protections for grizzlies is “deeply laden in values,” according to one expert. -
About a hundred people came out to U.S. Forest Service offices in Glenwood Springs on Thursday, just hours after a judge ordered that federal probationary workers be reinstated. They held signs, waved at honking cars, and worried about the impacts to public lands in the community. -
Wildland firefighters have been pushing for permanent pay raises for years. A stopgap funding measure approved by the U.S. House of Representatives and now heading to the Senate would do just that. -
Allison Stegner, a former USGS researcher, discusses her experience in the civil service, and the important role fired federal workers play for land management agencies, and what the administration is losing with massive job cuts. -
The Lower Basin states of California, Arizona and Nevada are asking for a fresh look at proposals for sharing the shrinking water supply and changes to Lake Powell and the Glen Canyon Dam. -
The U.S. Department of Agriculture says it will reinstate thousands of workers laid off in February starting this Wednesday. That includes many hundreds of Forest Service workers across the Mountain West. -
Seasonal forecasts point to a warm and dry spring. It’s not good news for a region that saw record heat and dry conditions last autumn.
