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Drilling, one mile outside Colorado’s Great Sand Dunes
Since President Donald Trump was sworn into office last year, the administration has used its “energy dominance” agenda to require states to conduct quarterly...
Undocumented: A life, a home and a family in the rural West
This story is the first in a series that examines a community grappling with uncertainties around immigration in one of Colorado’s poorest rural counties.
Before...
What the battle over the Dream Act means for the West
For a short time, soccer seemed like it might be Daniela Benitez’s ticket to attending college. She didn’t begin playing soccer until the eighth...
‘Orphaned’ oil and gas wells are on the rise
In March 2015, Joe MacLaren, a state oil and gas inspector in Colorado, drove out to the Taylor 3 oil well near the tiny...
Analysis: What a new report on climate science portends for the West
The complexity of climate change means it’s hard to trace simple lines from cause to effect in daily life, much less plan for the...