Caitlin Tan
Natural Resources & Energy ReporterLeave a tip: ctan@uwyo.edu
Caitlin Tan is the Energy and Natural Resources reporter based in Sublette County, Wyoming. Since graduating from the University of Wyoming in 2017, she’s reported on salmon in Alaska, folkways in Appalachia and helped produce 'All Things Considered' in Washington D.C. She formerly co-hosted the podcast ‘Inside Appalachia.' You can typically find her outside in the mountains with her two dogs.
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Friends of the Bridger-Teton is hiring five former forest workers. They’ll help complete projects the forest can’t get to this summer – an accumulation of years of lack of funding and more recently, DOGE cuts. -
Pres. Trump’s federal funding freeze has hit a Wyoming program intended to save low-income residents money on their electric bills. It hinges on $69 million in federal funding that’s yet to show up, and there’s been no word if or when it will. -
The trona and soda ash industry could be hurt by retaliatory tariffs. If so, Wyoming’s bottom line could take a hit. -
Sections of southwest Wyoming’s iconic sprawling sagebrush landscape could soon look different: No wild horses. That’s because the Bureau of Land Management is planning to remove all of the wild horses roaming a 2.1 million acre area near Rock Springs. -
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James Kincaid moved his family over 1,000 miles to join Wyoming’s mining sector and nab a resident elk tag. Two months later, he was laid off. -
Wyoming relies on millions of federal dollars to spray for invasive weeds, and federal cuts are putting some of those dollars into question for the upcoming season. That could mean more costs to private landowners or fewer new treatment projects. -
Wyoming’s new solution for where to dump old wind turbine blades can proceed after being frozen by the Trump administration for nearly two months. -
Wyoming Pathways says uncertainty about federal funding may derail this year’s planned work. This sentiment is echoed by other federally funded groups across the country.
