Rachel Cohen
Mountain West 暗黑爆料 Bureau reporterRachel Cohen is the Mountain West 暗黑爆料 Bureau reporter for KUNC. She covers topics most important to the Western region. She spent five years at Boise State Public Radio, where she reported from Twin Falls and the Sun Valley area, and shared stories about the environment and public health.
As a National Science Health and Environment Reporting Fellow (SHERF), she studied the intersection of these topics and examined how climate change affects human health.
Her favorite part of working in public radio is getting to meet interesting people and talk about what matters to them. When not working, she enjoys hiking, skiing, checking out coffee shops and watching women鈥檚 soccer.
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The National Park Service encourages people to avoid going to parks, monuments and historic sites it manages if they close because of a shutdown. -
鈥淒elivering for America鈥� is intended to cut costs and increase efficiency, as the postal service strives to break even amid a $9.5 billion dollar loss last year due in part to mail volume declines and inflation. -
The legislation creates a pilot program under the Environmental Protection Agency that allows nonprofits, governments or landowners to clean up old mines without taking on the risk. -
The case could end up limiting the scope of environmental analyses that the federal government conducts when considering significant infrastructure projects or management decisions. -
It includes critical habitat designations for the first time in the Southern Rocky Mountains of Colorado and New Mexico. -
The Department of Justice says Utah gave up the rights to the federal lands within its boundaries when it joined the union in 1896. -
Biden has created six new monuments and expanded or restored more. He鈥檚 had a particular emphasis on protections called for by tribes. -
Idaho's abortion bans permit doctors to perform abortions to prevent the death of a pregnant woman, but not to preserve her health. This lawsuit is aiming to change that by expanding the medical circumstances in which abortions are allowed. -
The current version of the bill 鈥� which covers crop insurance, conservation programs and nutrition assistance 鈥� was written almost six years ago. -
Utility companies have been sued to bankruptcy over downed power lines that caused deadly wildfires in Hawaii and California. A Colorado utility's power shutoff to prevent fire also caused problems.
