The new limits may represent a shift in Utah’s cozy relationship with industry.
Energy & Industry
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The good, the bad and the ugly of the state legislative season
While Congress does nothing, Western state lawmakers pass a flurry of consequential and/or crazy — bills.
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Oil industry profits don’t pay for cleanup
A failure of regulation has allowed industry to avoid the true cost of cleaning up its unplugged wells.
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Stolen Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system. Climate change is its legacy.
Extractive industries are filling public university coffers on stolen land.
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How solar geoengineering is clouding issues of tribal consent
‘Move fast, break things’ approach runs into issues of tribal authority.
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Biden plan will earmark millions of acres of public land for solar development
Proposed updates to the Western Solar Plan would also close sensitive areas to utility-scale solar projects.
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Is uranium poised for a renaissance?
As prices climb, mining proposals proliferate. But it might just be hype.
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New Mexico pushes back on Big Oil
New bills in the legislature could curb industry excesses.
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Washington’s solar permitting leaves tribal resources vulnerable to corporations
Tribal officials say the process threatens cultural resources and what remains of healthy Indigenous foodways.
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Climate litigation to watch in 2024
These court cases could move the needle on the climate crisis.
Posted inJanuary 1, 2024: January 2024
12 not-so-easy steps to decarbonize the grid
Electrifying will make a difference if that power comes from clean sources.
Posted inJanuary 1, 2024: January 2024
Labor unions and environmentalists are working together on the energy transition
In 2023, groups found solidarity on the climate, but work lies ahead.
Posted inJanuary 1, 2024: January 2024
The New Mexico co-op breaking up with fossil fuels
An 80-year-old electricity supplier goes all in on decarbonization.
Posted inJanuary 1, 2024: January 2024
I married a cookstove scientist
My reluctant journey to ditching our gas stove.
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Is Biden waging a war on energy? Or on the climate?
A year-end review of the administration’s policy on fossil fuels and public lands.
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Remove dams to fight the climate crisis
Ten reasons bringing down these barriers are key for mitigation and adaptation.
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Forest Service proposes storing CO2 under public land
‘It’s the opposite of a virtuous cycle.’
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Take a toxic tour of the Great Salt Lake
Utah grapples with its future of industry around its dying inland sea.
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Pondering public lands and the energy transition conundrum
Fighting the climate crisis will require difficult choices.
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New Mexico’s displaced coal miners have gotten the shaft on severance pay
The state’s just transition plans promised by the Energy Transition Act haven’t panned out for many workers.