Army Corps of Engineers and Bureau of Reclamation will update 2020 study that rejected dam breaching Original Post ➡️ The Lower Granite Dam in Pomeroy is photographed from an airplane flown by the founder of EcoFlight Bruce Gordon on Friday morning. Jordan Opp/Lewiston Tribune file Two federal agencies that operate dams on the Snake and ...

Original Post ➡️ A section of the Thompson Divide is shown. Project 2025, the conservative roadmap for a second Trump presidency organized by The Heritage Foundation, calls for a return to an “energy dominance” approach to federal land and minerals management. Courtesy of EcoFlight “Drill, baby, drill!”President-elect Donald Trump echoed that slogan throughout his successful campaign ...

Original Post ➡️ Oliver Maness, a Rifle High School senior, enjoys the view during an EcoFlight on Wednesday, Dec. 11.Julianna O’Clair/Post Independent Several Rifle and Glenwood Springs high school students buckled into single-engine planes and held on tight as they took to the skies for an EcoFlight aerial tour around Rifle on Wednesday.The quick jaunts ...

Original Post ➡️ A proposed Utah railway would quadruple the Uinta Basin’s oil production if built. Colorado and environmentalists have fought the project, arguing its impacts would extend far beyond Utah’s own borders. An aerial view of the Uinta Basin oil fields, where a proposed 88-mile railway would connect the oil production of northeastern Utah ...

Original Post ➡️ “Seen better”: Not every visitor is impressed with one of the world’s seven natural wonders, it turns out The grandeur stirs your soul. Or not. (Illustration: Studio-Pro/Getty Images (Text Bubble); pop_jop/Getty (Thumbs Down); Ansel Adams/NPS/Buyenlarge/Getty (B/W); Peter Unger/Getty (Grand Canyon). Collage by Kyra Kennedy.) The Grand Canyon is stunning. At Outside, we’re in love ...

The Pinyon Plain Mine near the Grand Canyon could contaminate groundwater. Pinyon Plain mine, formerly known as Canyon Mine. EcoFlight. The EPA has conducted a study concluding that the Pinyon Plain uranium mine has the potential to contaminate the region’s groundwater. The study raises questions about how the mine could affect the water stored in the Coconino and Redwall/Muav ...

Original Post ➡️ On Thanksgiving Day, according to multiple reports, the Biden administration moved to bar future coal leasing in the Powder River Basin, one of America’s most coal-rich areas.The Powder River Basin, includes parts of Montana and Wyoming. Nearly half – 43% – of U.S. coal in mined 2019, was mined in the area, according to the ...