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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The panel included Wyoming and Montana governors. They cheered Trump’s rollback of environmental oversight, adding that more can be done. -
Thousands of low income Wyomingites rely on a program that helps pay winter heating bills. But as of Oct. 15, it’s run out of money. -
Watchdog groups are raising flags over how the federal government is handling two major coal lease sales in our region, one of which was postponed last minute. -
The Trump administration is in the initial steps of possibly opening up wide swaths of the southwest Wyoming desert to oil and gas. But how that will work with the federal government shutdown is unclear. -
Open Spaces show rundown for October 3, 2025 -
As TerraPower constructs a training facility for its forthcoming nuclear power plant, Kemmerer’s administrator says getting the city ready is a point of stress. Partly because of budget cuts and impending coal mine job losses. -
The Trump administration is tossing money to prolong coal power, but a Wyoming electricity provider says it’s sticking with plans to fully convert a coal plant to natural gas. -
Some Wyoming politicians are championing the latest federal oil and gas lease sale in the state, but others are saying money is being left on the table.
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The town of Wright will have its air quality monitored for the next year or so. This comes after a national group gave the air a failing grade. -
An electricity provider in central Wyoming is still using a payment structure for rooftop solar power customers that was deemed unfit last year by the Wyoming Supreme Court. -
Open Spaces show rundown for September 19, 2025 -
Wyoming lawmakers fear financial fallout from federal breaks to coal.
