Caitlin Tan
Natural Resources & Energy ReporterLeave a tip: ctan@uwyo.edu
Caitlin Tan is the Energy and Natural Resources reporter based in Sublette County, Wyoming. Since graduating from the University of Wyoming in 2017, she’s reported on salmon in Alaska, folkways in Appalachia and helped produce 'All Things Considered' in Washington D.C. She formerly co-hosted the podcast ‘Inside Appalachia.' You can typically find her outside in the mountains with her two dogs.
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Lawmakers recently debated how much say landowners should have when companies want to build new pipelines for carbon dioxide, ultimately tipping toward industry. -
The Trump administration is bringing its “Unleashing American Energy” directives to 3.6 million federal acres in southwest Wyoming. The public comment period was supposed to end Nov. 3, but the BLM extended it to Dec. 18. -
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The Trump administration is betting on coal to solve the growing electricity dilemma for powering AI. But Inside Climate News' Jake Bolster writes that it's a “19th century technology being used to solve a 21st century problem.” -
Misinformation and confusion steered lawmakers as they passed legislation to ban chemtrails, a debunked conspiracy that claims the government is controlling our health with airborne chemicals. -
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Wyoming is faced with a tale as old as time: balancing multiple interests on public land. The state is poised to protect a threatened pronghorn herd, but federal directives for Unleashing American Energy could get in the way. -
The Trump administration is pushing for domestic uranium mining to ramp up. Companies are eyeing Wyoming, as it holds the largest known reserves in the country. -
The panel included Wyoming and Montana governors. They cheered Trump’s rollback of environmental oversight, adding that more can be done. -
Thousands of low income Wyomingites rely on a program that helps pay winter heating bills. But as of Oct. 15, it’s run out of money. -
Watchdog groups are raising flags over how the federal government is handling two major coal lease sales in our region, one of which was postponed last minute. -
The Trump administration is in the initial steps of possibly opening up wide swaths of the southwest Wyoming desert to oil and gas. But how that will work with the federal government shutdown is unclear.
