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The Land Desk: A public lands newsletter

With the dawning of a new year comes a new source of news, insight, and commentary: the Land Desk. It … More

Chaco, Climate change, environment, journalism, Land Desk, public lands

The Big Breakdown of coal, illustrated by one chart

After World War II, the federal government, utilities, and developers embarked on a project to build dams, mines, power plants, … More

BigBreakdown, coal, electricity, Energy, environment, GreatDecoupling, history, Pollution, power

Gold King documents and map unearthed

While going down a wormhole the other day, I stumbled across a variety of documents on the Gold King Mine … More

#GoldKing, #RiverOfLostSoulsBook, colorado, environment, environmental history, EPA, history, mining, Superfund

Methane madness and economic anxiety in northwest New Mexico

The meeting room was packed with people, many of them wearing the “I Stand With Oil And Gas” t-shirts that … More

BigBreakdown, climatechange, economics, Energy, environment, methane, oilandgas

Gold King water treatment shutdown: Bad, but not catastrophic

Alarm bells went off throughout the Animas and San Juan River drainages this weekend when big storms and the historically … More

#GoldKing, #RiverOfLostSoulsBook, colorado, environment, mining, Pollution

Is Trump policy really fueling a Western fracking boom?

When he was elected, President Donald Trump promised that he’d achieve American energy dominance by rolling back regulations on oil … More

environment, Fracking, oilandgas, PublicLands, Trump

Writing novels

Way back when I was a teenager, I spent summers at my dad’s house outside of Cortez, Colorado. I had … More

#BearsEars, BehindTheSlickrockCurtain, environment, Fiction, Writing

UPDATE: Bears Ears management plan is finalized

The Bureau of Land Management released its finalized Bears Ears National Monument management plan on Feb. 6, despite the fact … More

#BearsEars, environment, journalism, PublicLands, TribalAffairs

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