Enviornment

The energy landscape in our region is changing with coal plants scheduled to close and fossil fuel production facing new challenges. Wyoming Public Radio’s Caitlin Tan reports for the Mountain West News Bureau.

Introduced by Rep. Melanie Stansbury, the bills aim to improve water data nationally and facilitate better water management across the Rio Grande Basin.

Idaho Matters sits down to talk with the co-founder of the worlds biggest gift economy and find out how it works.

Douglas Brinkley, one of the most celebrated historians of his generation, isn’t partisan. He’s chronicled the legacies of Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan and has known many others who have occupied the Oval Office.

This spring, the Eagle County Regional Airport near Vail, Colorado, began offering the fatty jet fuel sourced from unwanted livestock tallow. It's a so-called sustainable aviation fuel with a lower carbon footprint.

We’ve heard a lot about wolf reintroduction in our region, but that’s not the only carnivore environmentalists want to bring back.

Boise’s composting program is so successful, the city is planning on expanding their services to accommodate a mushrooming population.

Parts of the Mountain West are still seeing snow and frost and sleet – but there's one sure sign that spring is actually here: the songs of migrating…

More than two hundred species in Idaho are threatened and edging closer to the endangered species list. One bill on Capitol Hill is aiming to change…