In the not so distant future, as the planet burns, the nation reels from the effects of a pandemic, Truth … More
Tag: Trump
About that “drilling surge”…
The U.S. Department of Interior recently sent out a flurry of press releases announcing a major upswing in energy development … More
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
Interior Secy. Zinke is Albert Fall and other writings on energy/public lands
In a harried attempt to keep up with the Trump administration’s assault on public lands, I’ve put out a flurry … More
On oil, milkshakes, movies, Albert B. Fall and Ryan Zinke
Surely the most famous monologue in Let There Be Blood, the 2007 Paul Thomas Anderson film about a California oil … More
Fiction: Howitzer Love
(Author’s note: I wrote this piece several years ago for the Silverton Mountain Journal. I retooled it for the current … More
Why President Obama needs to designate a Bears Ears National Monument
“People have always stereotyped and cartooned Blanding in an unfair way. I get tired of redneck knuckleheads cartooning the environmentalists, … More
Jonathan P. Thompson 