Estonian company Enefit American Oil wants free access across American public land in order to strip mine Utah for oil shale. But water and air quality questions remain.
Climate change in Asia and the Colorado Plateau is boosting temperatures, reducing river flows and turning winter snows into rains. Here's what people are doing about it:
Estonian energy giant Enefit is pushing for the first commercial oil shale production facility in the U.S. in Utah's Uinta Basin. The BLM must stop it.
The Obama administration announced plans to halt all new coal mining leases on federal public lands, the first revision of the federal coal program in nearly three decades.
The most difficult problem we face may be one species of non-native grass that has vexed ranchers, public land lovers and land managers alike for decades.
