By Heather Hansman
The grasslands at the Hanford Site in south central Washington seem like they stretch on forever: east toward the Columbia River and north toward the Hanford Reach National Monument and wildlife refuge. It looks like a wild, untouched expanse. But the site is one of the most polluted places on earth.
By Roy Payne
After years of inertia and inaction, nuclear waste is back on the political agenda.
By Bryan Leonard
Imagine that you are a private landowner interested in tapping oil or gas reserves beneath your property. You own one square mile of land, which is surrounded by alternating squares of federal and private land.
By Mike Koshmrl
A dozen or so wild horse advocates and photographers were gathered on a ridgeline near White Mountain in August 2024 when news started spreading that federal land managers got the OK from the courts to eliminate two entire herds, and a part of another, from 2.1 million acres of the area known as the Red Desert.
By Jill Bergman
There are places in Wyoming where the sky is more imposing than the land. The force of wind and emptiness define this spare country.
By Randy Rea
The Yampa River Basin is in trouble.
By Emilene Ostlind
Wyoming has long produced the most coal of any US state and lands in the top ten states for natural gas and oil production. In a fossil fuel driven economy, all that mineral wealth should make Wyoming rich, and sometimes it truly does.
By Birch Malotky
In early November 2020, the Wyoming Outdoor Council’s (WOC) staff huddled around a laptop and logged into their freshly minted account on energynet.com, an online marketplace where 199 leases for oil and gas development on Wyoming state trust lands were up for auction.
By Tessa Wittman
In the natural gas fields of western Wyoming, innumerable dirt roads cut through the sagebrush steppe, connecting gas wells and carrying heavy equipment.
On an unseasonably warm day last October, Richard Fox pulled up to the construction site of his future home near Pavillion, Wyoming, in an old Toyota pickup.
Keeping the lights and heat on at the University of Wyoming is a challenge.
Before Macy Miller moved into her 232-square-foot tiny home in Boise, Idaho
Community solar—sometimes referred to as a solar garden or virtual net metering—is when several households, businesses, or other entities invest together in a solar installation and share the electricity it produces.
Net metering lets customers tie small-scale renewable energy systems such as solar panels into the grid to offset their energy bills.
California and Wyoming make strange bedfellows, but when it comes to sharing electricity, the two states have been flirting.
Renewable energy is on the rise in the western United States, and the world.
Wyoming’s strong, predictable, consistent winds are a world-class resource. Ranchers and farmers have harnessed the wind to pump water since Wyoming was first settled, and small-scale commercial wind projects started in the 1970s.
Several states have implemented Renewable Portfolio Standards in an effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity sector.
Nearly 500 Wyoming coal miners were laid off last spring, and in the past two years roughly 5,400 oilfield workers lost their jobs in the state.
The world needs more energy. More than 1.4 billion people live without access to electricity.
