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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Under the proposed rule, employers would need to provide access to 鈥渟uitably cool鈥� and sufficient drinking water, break areas where employees could cool down and paid rest breaks when the heat index hits 80 degrees Fahrenheit. -
Unions at three Colorado mountains penned a letter to Vail Resorts CEO Kristen Lynch, objecting to the company using their colleagues to backfill striking workers in Utah. -
According to the latest annual report from the Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, four of the nine states with the weakest road safety laws are in the Mountain West and no state in the region is in the category with the top safety laws. -
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.
