Author – The Journal

Jonathan Thompson

New book examines Bears Ears

When the debate raged over whether then President Barack Obama should establish the Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah, some people worried it could have an unintended effect ...

DATE: Dec 22, 2022 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

The 26,000 tons of radioactive waste under Lake Powell

Uranium boom brought mills and toxic waste to the Colorado River

DATE: Dec 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

West’s push for one big electric grid gains steam

And in the darkness, bind them: The West’s bid for one big electric grid

DATE: Jul 19, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

What the Navajo Generating Station will leave behind

The smokestacks of the Navajo Generation Station rise 775 feet from the sere landscape of the Navajo Nation in northern Arizona, just three miles away from the serpentine, stagnant blue woun...

DATE: Mar 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: State Nation World

What it means to close the Navajo Generating Station

Seven things you need to know about the impact of the closure of the Navajo Generating Station

DATE: Feb 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Was the Bears Ears designation a victory?

Despite compromise, the controversial monument’s opposition is riled up

DATE: Feb 1, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Here’s where Obama drew the line on Bears Ears Monument

Concessions on Bears Ears Monument are unlikely to appease ardent opponents

DATE: Jan 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

New Mexico’s DAPL is dead

Pipeline would have carried crude oil around Chaco Culture National Historic Park

DATE: Dec 27, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

In Utah, the fight for a Bears Ears monument heats up

In a place where history, culture and geography intermingle, ‘local’ can be hard to define

DATE: May 4, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

What a bust looks like

Low prices have energy companies and communities reeling as rig counts plummet

DATE: Mar 30, 2016 | CATEGORY: Business

How BLM rule affects oil and gas fields

Rule will help conserve natural gas and mitigate pollution, targeting 100,000 existing wells

DATE: Jan 28, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

A pumpjack is not a coal mine

Eight things you need to know about coalbed methane mining.

DATE: Nov 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Business