Uploaded June 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Watch this week’s Halito from High Country News. Brian Oaster rounds up some of our news stories from this past week. Oaster is a staff writer and a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. “Halito” is the Choctaw greeting for hello.
A community poisoned by oil
By Adam Mahoney
hcn.org/articles/south-pollution-a-community-poisoned-by-oil
A chronic polluter closes its doors. What’s next?
By Kylie Mohr
hcn.org/issues/54.7/north-pollution-a-chronic-polluter-closes-its-doors-whats-next
Why can’t the public access the West’s biggest waterfall?
By Brian Oaster
hcn.org/issues/54.7/indigenous-affairs-water-why-cant-the-public-access-the-wests-biggest-waterfall
How cooking, eating and harvesting beach greens ties a family together
By Laureli Ivanoff
hcn.org/issues/54.6/north-food-how-cooking-eating-and-harvesting-beach-greens-ties-a-family-together
High Country News is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) independent media organization that covers environmental news and other important issues and stories that define the Western U.S. Through insightful, in-depth journalism, it strives to inform and inspire people to act on behalf of the West's diverse natural and human communities.
Watch this week’s Halito from High Country News. Brian Oaster rounds up some of our news stories from this past week. Oaster is a staff writer and a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. “Halito” is the Choctaw greeting for hello.
A community poisoned by oil
By Adam Mahoney
hcn.org/articles/south-pollution-a-community-poisoned-by-oil
A chronic polluter closes its doors. What’s next?
By Kylie Mohr
hcn.org/issues/54.7/north-pollution-a-chronic-polluter-closes-its-doors-whats-next
Why can’t the public access the West’s biggest waterfall?
By Brian Oaster
hcn.org/issues/54.7/indigenous-affairs-water-why-cant-the-public-access-the-wests-biggest-waterfall
How cooking, eating and harvesting beach greens ties a family together
By Laureli Ivanoff
hcn.org/issues/54.6/north-food-how-cooking-eating-and-harvesting-beach-greens-ties-a-family-together
High Country News is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) independent media organization that covers environmental news and other important issues and stories that define the Western U.S. Through insightful, in-depth journalism, it strives to inform and inspire people to act on behalf of the West's diverse natural and human communities.
