Maggie Mullen
Reporter, Mountain West News BureauMaggie Mullen is Wyoming Public Radio's regional reporter with the Mountain West News Bureau. Her work has aired on NPR, Marketplace, Science Friday, and Here and Now. She was awarded a 2019 regional Edward R. Murrow Award for her story on the Black 14.
Maggie is a fifth generation Wyomingite, born and raised in Casper. She lives in Sheridan with her boyfriend, and their mutt dog.
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A local health board in Montana voted this week to continue to follow the CDC's COVID guidelines on who needs to quarantine after a close contact. But that could violate a new state law that prohibits discrimination based on vaccination status.
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Public health officials hope the FDA's full approval of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine will encourage residents who are hesitant or unwilling.
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For many, opening up your windows at night used to be enough to keep your house cool during the summertime. But extreme heat from climate change has made that more complicated. Wyoming Public Radio's Maggie Mullen reports.
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The pay initiative is part of the Biden administration's plans to improve working conditions for federal wildland firefighters.
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It found that average occupancy rates at campgrounds in the West dropped by 1.3 percentage points when smoke was bad—driving concerns about public health.
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An updated version of a 2019 report published in the journal BioScience on Wednesday includes an additional 2,800 scientists’ signatures.
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A study published earlier this year found that even without bark beetle outbreaks and wildfire, trees in Colorado's subalpine forests are dying at increasing rates from extreme summer conditions.
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The reservoir in Grand Teton National Park is expected to be drawn down to levels only seen three times in the last 30 years.
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If you have risk factors, you will want to check the Air Quality Index (AQI), and avoid going out if levels are over 100. For everyone else, limit activity over 150, and avoid exercising outdoors at levels over 200.