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The big issues facing the West

I think of this issue as a sort of progress report on three of the biggest issues facing the Western United States: climate change, homelessness and the wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. Barely a week into his administration, President Joe Biden hit pause on selling leases for oil and gas drilling on public lands. Of course, as Carl Segerstrom tells us, old hands in the West are fully aware that doesn’t mean the drilling will stop. It does, however, signal a welcome shift in policy. Balbir Singh drives a tractor in Karm Baim’s orchard in Gridley, California, where Punjabi American people have farmed for more than a century.

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Land-grab universities wins Polk Award for Education Reporting — High Country News – Know the West

Texas Observer and then-Indigenous Affairs editor for High Country News, and Lee, a historian at Cambridge University, located 99% of the nearly 11 million acres transferred to fledgling land-grant colleges by the Morrill Act of 1862 lands taken from their original Indigenous caretakers through the use of broken treaties, illegal seizures and outright genocide. In addition to the feature published in High Country News, the project also created a database at landgrabu.org that translates the extensive primary source research into searchable, visual representation, clearly showing the links between nearly 250 Indigenous tribal nations and the 52 institutions that profited (and in some cases still profit) from the transfers.

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Remembering coal

This month, we take a long look at the end of an era: the half-century when coal defined the energy economy of the West. Lights burned, rivers were diverted and subdivisions boomed, all thanks to coal. But as Jonathan Thompson explains in this month’s “Facts & Figures,” the “Big Buildup” is over, and what he calls “the Big Breakdown” is on. The transition will be felt across the West, from workers who need to find new jobs to communities whose longtime residents are leaving to find work. A train loaded with coal travels through West Texas. Since its peak in 2007, coal use by U.S. power plants has dropped by half.

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Biden s climate plan sparks backlash from oil, gas companies

This is the Jan. 28, 2021, edition of Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment in California and the American West. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. The day before President Joe Biden took office, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce one of the country’s most influential business groups, and a longtime opponent of aggressive climate policies made a seemingly major announcement: It would support a market-based approach to slashing emissions. American climate policy, the Chamber said, “should recognize the urgent need for action.” But three days later as the Biden administration prepared to pause new oil and gas leases on public lands and waters the group released a statement reading, in part, “There is never a good time to disrupt domestic energy production.”

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