KAIBAB NATIONAL FOREST — Wind rustles the barbed fence surrounding Canyon Mine as Amber Reimondo patrols its perimeter.
For the last four years under the Trump administration, Reimondo, the energy... Read Original Story
ON DEC. 4, 2017, President Donald Trump announced an unprecedented move in a presidency that would prove to be full of them. Standing before Utah’s state capitol in Salt Lake City, he signed a... Read Original Story
SALT LAKE CITY — President-elect Joe Biden will officially take office next week, and with that comes expected shifts in how the U.S. deals with environmental and outdoors issues.
For starters, Biden... Read Original Story
STANDING ROCK RESERVATION, N.D. — The virus took Grandma Delores first, silencing an 86-year-old voice that rang with Lakota songs and stories. Then it came for Uncle Ralph, a stoic Vietnam veteran.... Read Original Story
It was one of Donald Trump’s most controversial early moves as president: to radically shrink two national monuments in the American West.
Now Indigenous peoples are hopeful that Joe Biden will undo... Read Original Story
Energy Fuels executives are touting the potential of their uranium mill in San Juan County to process ore for rare earth elements, which are used in everything from iPhones to electric vehicles.
But... Read Original Story
Activist and farmer Tomoyo Tamayama was already an expert in the ways radiation exposure can disrupt communities when earthquakes shook Japan’s Pacific coast in 2011.
The quakes and associated... Read Original Story
This was a hell of a year, leaving many of us scrambling to unwind in one of the country’s treasured natural places. If you’re looking to get outside without dropping cash at the entrance station (... Read Original Story