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Roughly two-thirds of grazing on Bureau of Land Management land is controlled by just 10 percent of permit holders.
The garden in the middle of a 35,000-acre former mine is supplying thousands of pounds of fresh produce to families in three counties that have few grocery stores.
A 'hundred-year flood' would disproportionately affect the county's Black communities.
"It’s been a lackluster, underwhelming, frankly problematic response."
Projects face a shortage of power lines and delays in connecting to the grid — two issues the debt ceiling deal does little to address.
Solar advocates in southwestern Virginia say being local, proving the technology works, and building a coalition to support it have been key to their success.
"The people there are tired of being studied. We need to take action.”
Documents detail how the EPA coordinated with the very companies they’re supposed to regulate by attacking researchers and smearing peer-reviewed science.
With little fanfare, the administration is using infrastructure funding to revive dormant plans for pipelines and reservoirs in rural areas across the U.S. West.
