The bipartisan energy permitting bill currently before Congress would speed up clean energy and fossil fuel projects by weakening bedrock environmental laws.

Many federal buyout programs have strict eligibility requirements that exclude some of the people most vulnerable after a ...

The Trump administration has once again gutted Bears Ears National Monument in southern Utah by stripping away roughly 90% of its acreage and dissolving the Bears Ears Inter-Triba ...

If passed, the measure would tax large corporate retailers to help the city meet its climate goals and improve quality of life for residents. On a muggy July day, volunteers marched the half mile from ...

Angelo Baca, Ph.D., (Diné/Hopi) is an award-winning filmmaker, scholar and advocate whose work focuses on Indigenous cultural heritage, land stewardship and data sovereignty, int ...

Natasha K. Hale (Diné) helped lead the movement to protect Bears Ears National Monument and implement the tribal nations’ vision for it and for tribal co-management authority a ...

We get plenty of people who come unprepared or don’t do any research at all. To these guys’ credit, they did try,” said Nick Meyers, U.S. Forest Service program manager of the Mount Shasta Wilderness ...

Cattle trails scar a denuded landscape near Carlin, Nevada. Like much of the West, it is a patchwork of private property and public rangeland overseen by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. Credit: ...

An appeals court hearing could determine whether feds reconsider Endangered Species Act protections for wolves across the West.

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The crows were quiet. They perched in bare-limbed trees, heads tucked beneath still wings, black bodies silhouetted against towering buildings tinged sepia by streetlamps. Occasionally, a sentry ...

This article was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network, an independent, nonprofit news organization, and is part of a special project on Food and Power in the West.