Researcher Katherine Hoff explains how negotiation and dialogue can smooth the energy transition.
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How to solve local opposition to green development
Bespoke community benefits agreements can offer residents tangible gains in return for the disturbance of development.
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Outgoing Bureau of Land Management director optimistic about public lands
Tracy Stone-Manning discusses the BLM’s achievements and talks about the future as we enter a new political era.
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Jimmy Carter’s mixed environmental record
The former president emphasized conservation, protection — and coal mining.
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Who’s against wind development in ‘The Crazies’?
Amy Gamerman’s new book examines attempts to block the energy transition in Montana’s Crazy Mountains.
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2024 set the stage for clean energy on public lands
Thanks to Biden administration policies, the momentum behind the energy transition could be hard to stall.
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The future of renewables in Arizona hinges on voters
The Arizona Corporation Commission has come under scrutiny for its continued support of fossil fuels and resistance to supporting more solar in the state. Three seats could make the difference.
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The Department of Energy promised Yakama Nation $32 million for solar. It’s nearly impossible to access.
Held up by a series of bureaucratic hurdles, the funding could expire before the government lets the tribal nation touch a dime.
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Washington solar project paused amid concern about Indigenous sites
Avangrid Renewables said they plan to review comments from tribal nations and private landowners.
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How the Nez Perce are using an energy transition to save salmon
The tribe is working to replace the generating capacity of the Lower Snake River dams with solar power.
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Data centers could set back climate progress
AI, cryptocurrency “mining” and our digital lifestyles imperil the energy transition — and the planet.
Posted inJuly 2024
In green energy boom, one federal agency made the Yakama Nation an offer they had to refuse
Federal rules and a lack of protection for sacred places left the Indigenous nation with an impossible choice.
Posted inJune 2024: The Idea of Wilderness
The race to understand the risks of the energy transition for wildlife
Researchers are trying to understand how utility-scale solar affects New Mexico pronghorn.
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Can carbon capture transition California’s oil fields?
In Kern County, the community searches for an economic alternative to a fossil fuel industry. Will it be any fairer than the old one?
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What’s next for the Owyhee Canyonlands?
Supporters call it ’the largest conservation opportunity in the West.’
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Wildlife habitat and tribal cultures threatened by Washington’s largest wind farm
The newly approved renewable energy project is planned across an eco-corridor and ceremonial sites.
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Wenatchi-P’squosa people demonstrate against proposed solar project
The Badger Mountain development in eastern Washington threatens heritage foodways on sacred lands.
Posted inApril 2024: Epic Journeys
The great solar build-out
Public-land managers ponder where to allow utility-scale solar projects
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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.
Posted inJanuary 11, 2024: The Creatures in Our Midst
How solar geoengineering is clouding issues of tribal consent
‘Move fast, break things’ approach runs into issues of tribal authority.