Albert Sommers, a cattle rancher and former Wyoming speaker of the House, understands DeWitt’s concerns. After Roberts’ actions with the wolf became public in early 2024, he defended Roberts’ ...

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Around the West, community land trusts are helping people recover from disaster — and prepare for the next one.

The Western Apache and a coalition of environmental groups have fought for years against the Resolution Copper mine, which would become one of the country’s largest at the cost of a site revered by ...

Wildfires like this are increasingly affecting water supplies across the U.S. and creating a compounding crisis that experts in water, utilities and emergency management are only beginning to wrestle ...

She co-founded a Whatcom County chapter of the Rainbow Coalition. Later, as part of the United Farm Workers of America, she led negotiations to win a union contract for farmworkers at the Chateau Ste.

People living in Wilmington, California, experience higher levels of illness and ailing mental health.

Tribal officials say the process threatens cultural resources and what remains of healthy Indigenous foodways.

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Climate change is creating a mental health crisis in Phoenix. A budding movement in the desert might solve it.

A product of the New Deal, Kit Carson was founded in 1944 to bring electricity to rural northern New Mexico. Today, there are 832 rural distribution co-ops nationwide. In general, rural co-ops ...

Rebels with a Lost Cause Gale Norton and James Watt Both had stints with Mountain States Legal Foundation, then served as secretaries of Interior, where they pushed for general deregulation ...