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Data Dump: Hydropower dries up along with the rest of the West

As hydropower wanes, dirtier energy sources take up the slack

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Jonathan P. Thompson
May 26, 2021
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Glen Canyon Dam and its giant power plant during a high flow experimental release. Jonathan P. Thompson photo.

In the summer of 1881, a 28-year-old Ohioan named Lucien L. Nunn, smarting from a string of failed restaurant ventures in Colorado’s mining country, left the budding burg of Durango and hiked 70 miles over high mountains to Telluride, where he …

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