Energy, Agriculture & Environment
Fargo Forum: US coal plants slashed their mercury emissions. North Dakota accounts for a big share of what remains (March 2022) / 2021 was North Dakota’s 5th warmest year on record (January 2022) / Century-old ranchland study yields new data on climate change, evolution of North Dakota’s native prairie (January 2022) / North Dakota’s largest wind farm slated for county with anti-renewables rules (January 2022) / Massive Midwest pipeline, a test for North Dakota’s carbon capture goals, hits landowner snags (December 2021) / Coal counties ask North Dakota to pump brakes on $1.8 billion hydrogen project (December 2021) / Dams were already killing North Dakota’s cottonwood trees. Climate change could hasten their decline. (October 2021) / North Dakota ranchers work through hard times amid historic drought (August 2021) / Burying carbon dioxide deep in North Dakota’s geology may combat climate change. Is it financially feasible? (August 2021) / North Dakota’s overshadowed solar industry imagines a different future (August 2021) / Carbon capture loans could leave North Dakota taxpayers on the hook for $250M (July 2021) / North Dakota lawmakers throw lifelines to the coal industry (May 2021) / In western North Dakota, oil workers try to survive hard times in a pandemic. (August 2020)
Politics
Fargo Forum: Confronting criticism, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum reflects on pivotal pandemic decisions (December 2020)
Politico Magazine: This liberal sports radio host thinks he can take down Mitch McConnell (March 2018)
Texas Tribune: Chip Roy helped Ted Cruz agitate in the U.S. Senate. Now he has brought those tactics to the House. (July 2019) / “I’m not sorry”: A quarter-century later, Eddie Bernice Johnson stands by her crime bill vote (July 2019) / U.S. House passes $4.5 billion border aid bill amid mounting concern over detained migrant children (June 2019)
COVID-19
Fargo Forum: North Dakota health officials stymied by vaccine resisters amid COVID-19 delta surge (September 2021) / North Dakota baby’s near fatal fight with COVID-19 signals new risk to children (September 2021) / ‘Vaccine hesitancy’ takes hold in western North Dakota, threatening herd immunity (April 2020) / After months with no state-wide mask mandate, why did North Dakota finally get one? (November 2020) / How Minot became the COVID-19 capital of North Dakota (November 2020) / Burgum praises patchwork of local mask mandates as North Dakota reaches doorstep of 500 deaths (October 2020)