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A new report from the American Lung Association shows cities across the Western U.S. have some of the most polluted air in the country. But that’s not the case everywhere in the Mountain West.
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Wyoming is joining about two dozen other states in a pair of lawsuits challenging new rules from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
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Yellowstone National Park is adding more measures to try and prevent aquatic invasive species from entering the park’s waters.
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Some states, such as Texas and Florida, have banned protections for workers toiling in high heat. But in the West, establishing standards and procedures for extreme heat days is a priority, and not just for those who have to work outside.
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More than 10 million U.S. homes sit within three miles of a solar farm. A new national survey looks into how people feel about having these large renewable energy projects as their neighbors.
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New maps from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) show the migration routes of several big game herds across the West.
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A federal agency wants to revoke management of lands on the Wind River Reservation. A portion of Muddy Ridge could go to the Bureau of Land Management, or to local entities like Wyoming’s two federally recognized tribes.
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Every winter at 22 state-run feedgrounds in western Wyoming, elk descend from the mountains looking for more forage, and possibly hay. It all started about a 100 years ago. After some brutal winters, Wyoming started feeding elk to help them survive and to keep them off ranches. All these years later, elk have come to depend on it. But now, Wyoming says it can’t go on the way it always has, because of a deadly disease that can spread when elk congregate.
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The data suggests the West is less impacted by the phenomenon than other regions, but a utility expert suggests the impact could still be quite significant.
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The $135 million will go towards building and maintaining residential solar installations on a number of reservations.
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The Biden administration has put out a beta version of what it calls the American Conservation and Stewardship Atlas, a massive mapping project that seeks to visualize conservation efforts across the country. It also is intended to show progress toward the administration’s goal of conserving or restoring 30 percent of American territory by 2030.
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Next Wednesday, May 1, biologists will begin annual grizzly and black bear captures in Yellowstone National Park for research purposes.