Rockies Dispatch

The ongoing health and safety failures at the JBS meat-processing plant in Greeley, Colorado, highlight an industry-wide truth: It’s production over people, even in a deadly pandemic.

Beavers create rich habitats and act as buffers against the effects of drought and wildfire—spurring efforts to pinpoint new ways to help us coexist with North America’s largest rodent.

City officials see dedicated bus corridors, scooter-share programs, and protected bike lanes as key to greening their transportation network.

The streets are hardly choked with traffic, but this Northern Rockies locale sees plenty of other good reasons to get more of its commuters out from behind the wheel.

The Ute Mountain Ute tribe is working to free itself from fossil fuel dependency—and preparing to help solarize the rest of the state, too.

NRDC and other environmental and public health groups are suing to stop an extraction project (the first of its kind in the United States) proposed by the Estonian company Enefit.

Food waste and food insecurity are two sides of the same coin. This creative initiative aims to tackle both.

A push for more animal bridges and overpasses is aimed at reducing the number of collisions between vehicles and wildlife.

In the small city of Great Falls, residents push back against a Big Ag plant that would consume 3.5 million gallons of water—and produce 102,995 pounds of waste—per day.

Citing poor air quality and high asthma rates, local environmental advocates are pushing for a cleaner ride to school for their children.