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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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. -
“Improving the Service’s interactions with the public, simplifying regulations, accelerating permitting with technology, and relying more on education, voluntary compliance, and verification,” he told senators on the Committee on Environment and Public Works. -
The Kemmerer coal mine is laying off 28 workers. City officials hope other, incoming energy projects can absorb them. -
Open Spaces show rundown for March 14, 2025 -
Lawmakers defunded the state’s two-decade program that also benefits downstream states. But they’re optimistic those states will pay for Wyoming’s share to keep it going. -
Spent nuclear fuel, or what many of us think of as nuclear waste, is building up at temporary sites all across the country, and the U.S. is looking to consolidate it. New research looks at the pros and cons of developing the industry in-state. -
A proposed project on the Seminoe Reservoir northeast of Rawlins would use water, pumps and gravity to store energy. The project falls under the Trump directive to ‘unleash American energy, ’ and it’s unclear what federal environmental studies will look like. One conservation group is worried as the area is home to a world-class fishery. -
Chronic wasting disease has struck the Black Butte elk feedground, making it the third feedground in the past three months. The fatal disease threatens to topple western Wyoming’s roughly 20,000 fed elk. -
Open Spaces show rundown for March 7, 2025
