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Image: Friday SkydayA few impressions from a drive to Page
Jun 24
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Solstice and the Silver Bullet A tale of not-so-rugged Western individualism
Jun 22
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Episodes and images from a broken, beautiful AmericaFriday morning I awoke, as I do almost every weekday, at 4:45 to do one of my jobs, which is to compile Western energy-related news items into a daily dispatch for the Energy News Network. I was in a Page, Arizona, hotel room on a leg of a journey that has so far taken me on a…
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Reporting Trip ReportA stop at Silverton to talk Gold King Mine
Jun 20
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OPEN LETTER TO THE PEOPLE
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Challenge at Glen Canyon
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Images from a Four Corners road-trip
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Weds Hed(lines)s: Court favors Grand Canyon uranium; Biden wants mine reform; oil-gas go gangbusters; coal just won't die...yet
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Another control day
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Image: Fossil Fuel ExtravaganzaI spent yesterday touring a nasty oilfield in northwestern New Mexico with a group of smart, concerned citizens. We ended our tour here, at an oil and…
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Impressions from a HomecomingIn which I play the used-to-be game
Jun 15
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Guest Post: The Colorado River Compact hasn't aged wellBy George Sibley
Jun 13
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Friday Chart: Rise and Fall (and comeback?) of CoalAlso: National Sacrifice Area?
Jun 10
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Happy Birthday Antiquities ActThe landmark law is 116 today
Jun 8
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Monday News RoundupWe're doomed. Or maybe not. Energy Transition and Public Lands Ticker. More.
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Desecration at Bears EarsPlus: Phoenix getting water act together? Nature is Scary; Wildfire Watch
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Cisco Resort and other water buffalo oddities A 1946 report called for the Colorado River System to be dammed, diverted, and industrialized
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Episodes and images from a broken, beautiful America
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OPEN LETTER TO THE PEOPLE
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Challenge at Glen Canyon
5
2
Images from a Four Corners road-trip
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Weds Hed(lines)s: Court favors Grand Canyon uranium; Biden wants mine reform; oil-gas go gangbusters; coal just won't die...yet
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