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Episodes and images from a broken, beautiful America
Friday 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…
Jun 27
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Image: Friday Skyday
A few impressions from a drive to Page
Jun 24
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The good climate news of today
Even as SCOTUS deals blow to efforts to fight climate change, a Southwestern coal plant shuts halfway down
Jun 30
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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 America
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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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Reporting Trip Report
A stop at Silverton to talk Gold King Mine
Jun 20
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Image: Fossil Fuel Extravaganza
I 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…
Jun 17
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Impressions from a Homecoming
In which I play the used-to-be game
Jun 15
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Guest Post: The Colorado River Compact hasn't aged well
By George Sibley
Jun 13
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Friday Chart: Rise and Fall (and comeback?) of Coal
Also: National Sacrifice Area?
Jun 10
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Happy Birthday Antiquities Act
The landmark law is 116 today
Jun 8
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Monday News Roundup
We're doomed. Or maybe not. Energy Transition and Public Lands Ticker. More.
Jun 6
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Desecration at Bears Ears
Plus: Phoenix getting water act together? Nature is Scary; Wildfire Watch
Jun 3
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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
15
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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
11
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Another control day
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