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One of two groups of cattle are pushed across Salt Spring Valley on their way 14 miles up to higher grazing lands. (Michael Macor/Getty Images )

Wealthy ranchers profit from public lands. Taxpayers pick up the tab.

Mark Olalde, Jimmy Tobias
Oil Wells pumping outside of Midland Texas. (Photo by Joe Sohm/Getty Images)

Trump’s clean oil claims run up against hard data in Texas

Martha Pskowski, Mark Olalde
Embers fall around a photographer as the Creek Fire rapidly expands on September 8, 2020 near Shaver Lake, California. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)

Trump said cuts wouldn’t affect public safety. Then he fired workers who help fight wildfires

Mark Olalde
BITTER SPRINGS, ARIZONA - JANUARY 1: A rainbow is seen above homes in the Navajo Nation, on January 1, 2023 in Bitter Springs, Arizona. Reports say that nearly 40% of Navajo Nation is living without running water. Despite living near the Colorado River the Navajo Nation was left out of talks almost a hundred years ago when rule makers were drawing up the Colorado River Compact.(Photo by RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

How Arizona stands between tribes and their water

Mark Olalde, Umar Farooq, Anna V. Smith
The White Mesa Mill opened in the 1970s to process uranium ore, and recently the mill has become an area to bring low level radioactive waste on April 4, 2022 in White Mesa, Utah. (RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

“A ticking atomic bomb”: The Cold War legacy lurking in U.S. groundwater

Mark Olalde, Mollie Simon, Alex Mierjeski