Features
The dizzying scope of abandoned mine hazards on public lands (High Country News/Project on Government Oversight)
As construction begins on a Minnesota oil line, Native activists keep fighting (Audubon magazine)
Megadrought: New Mexico farms face uncertain future (High Country News/Capital & Main)
'This land is all we have left': tribes on edge over giant dam proposal near Grand Canyon (The Guardian)
On the North Shore, many hands work to help a dying forest (Minnesota Public Radio)
Rural Minnesota’s lack of shelters makes homeless an ‘invisible population’ (Minnesota Public Radio)
Investigations
Two Democrats kill chances of reforming outdated hardrock mining law (High Country News/Project on Government Oversight)
Oil industry tailored air quality law with help from NM’s top environment official (Source New Mexico)
How big oil keeps a grip on New Mexico – with the help of a major lobbyist (The Guardian/Floodlight)
New Mexico fights to escape powerful grip of big oil and gas (The Guardian/Floodlight)
Inside the dirty, dangerous world of carbon flooding (Capital & Main/The Wire)