When I toured the site of Azarga’s (then Powertech’s) proposed uranium mining site north of Edgemont in 2014, the project leaders told me that their in-situ recovery mining…
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The Environmental Protection Agency is taking public comment on the two draft permits it wants to issue to foreign corporation Azarga/Powertech to shoot water into…
Yup—as expected, Kristi Noem is taking credit for the end of the pine beetle epidemic: Just wanted to send you a quick note, as the…
Dakota Free Press Podcast Episode #5 is up and ready for your earbuds! This week, Spencer Dobson and I talk March for Science, pine beetles, online…
Just like San Francisco city employees and insurance execs, the mountain pine beetle is staying away from South Dakota. The beetle epidemic that turned much of…
South Dakota agriculture relies on immigrant workers to bring in the crops, cattle, and milk. Another big South Dakota industry, tourism, relies on foreign labor to cook, clean, and…
KOTA-TV notes that Governor Dennis Daugaard lost his appeal of the Bureau of Indian Affairs decision to place the Pe’ Sla grassland in the middle of…
The Whitetail Fire in Custer State Park this month is one tiny flare-up in a long-term increase in wildfire driven by climate change. The Trump budget…
Governor Dennis Daugaard just finished his penultimate (Lori Walsh used that word—bless you, dear lady!) State of the State Address to the 2017 Legislature. The three biggest…
Black Elk Peak isn’t as tall as we thought it was. Black Hills photographer Paul Horsted enlisted Nebraska surveyor Jerry Penry to remeasure the mountain and…