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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Open Spaces show rundown for May 16, 2025
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Researchers found Wyomingites are split on why the climate is changing, but most want to see action to prepare for changes. This comes at a time when some state politicians have denied climate science.
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Lots of uncertainty still remains about what the federal government will and won’t pay for. But one thing is clear: The feds will pay for toilet pumping on the Bridger-Teton National Forest.
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Wyoming's governor spoke at a regional convention geared toward energy and mineral policy. He didn't mince words, calling some of the state Freedom Caucus’s efforts around the industry "dumb.”
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Wyoming high school alpine ski racing goes back at least 50 years, and the whole league could’ve gone under this coming winter due to one school’s budget cuts.
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Federal cuts brought a new study on mine worker safety to a screeching halt. Southwest Wyoming trona miners were hoping it’d fill the gaps in what’s otherwise a limited set of data.
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Wyoming’s Bureau of Land Management state office Director Andrew Archuleta has been placed on administrative leave due to violating ethics rules and procedures.
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Open Spaces show rundown for April 18, 2025
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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.
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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.