Agency says risks to fisheries and natural resources justify gathering more data.
Energy & Industry
At Washington’s Hanford nuclear site, failing infrastructure and make-do plans as the West prepares for a new round of radioactivity.
Current drilling remains a shadow of the frenzy that occurred under Obama.
A new generation of environmentalists is learning to stop worrying and love atomic power.
Officials from both parties ask Secretary Ryan Zinke to reconsider.
Citing risks, Gov. Inslee rejects plans for the nation’s largest oil terminal.
A massive 1960s spill has Californians on edge about Trump’s push for oil extraction.
Will Western states react in time to save local economies?
Even without wholesale land transfers, public lands are already being conveyed to industry.
Digs are imperiled by Trump’s move to slash protections for public land.
Under Trump, the natural gas pipeline gets a third chance.
New research links natural gas compressors with physical impacts on birds.
The rollback prompts broad opposition from former officials from both political parties.
Analysts say the import fees will increase costs and halt hiring in the industry.
Taking stock of the deregulation of land and climate protections in 2017.
Wells left behind by industry threaten to overwhelm Western states.
The Trump administration will allow oil and gas leasing in key sagebrush lands.
The GOP tax bill opens the Arctic to energy development, setting the stage for divisive battles to come.
Many regulations were axed because they are ‘burdens’ to energy development.
Climate change initiatives were the most targeted by the Trump administration.
The West’s uranium boom brought dozens of mills to the banks of the Colorado River — where toxic waste was dumped irresponsibly.
Obama-era plan required mining companies to prove they can pay for remediation.
Trump’s decision to shrink Bears Ears reopens wounds that Obama sought to heal.
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