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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If signed into law by the president, the bill would revert to a previous land management plan for the nation’s top producing coal region, which allows new coal mining. However, even when that previous plan was in place, there wasn’t a federal coal lease sale for more than a decade. -
The Sublette County lake turned red last year, leaving water quality managers stumped. Now, they think it’s because of a nontoxic native algae. -
Open Spaces show rundown for November 14, 2025 -
Cody Roberts pleaded not guilty to felony charges. Wyoming Public Radio’s Caitlin Tan briefs us on the scene at the courthouse and what comes next. -
Almost 20% of the state was without power Thursday. The cause is still being investigated. -
Two tripped power lines near Medicine Bow likely caused the outages, according to the Western Area Power Administration. -
Wyoming SNAP benefits could start hitting accounts as soon as Friday. Meanwhile, LIEAP has yet to be refunded by federal lawmakers. -
Cody Roberts ran down a wolf with a snowmobile and brought it into a bar in Feb. 2024. This was the first time Roberts has publicly appeared and talked on the issue. -
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.”
