Brittany Peterson

Stay informed with Brittany Peterson’s coverage and analysis for Fortune.

  • SnowEnvironment

    ‘Mother Nature has been dealing a really hard deck’: Western ski resorts struggle with a warm, snowless start to winter

    By Mead Gruver, Brittany Peterson, and others
  • coalEnvironment

    ‘You have an entire culture, an entire community that is also having that same crisis’: Colorado coal town looks anxiously to the future

    By Brittany Peterson, Jennifer McDermott, and others
  • A man fills a Heli-HydrantInnovation

    A firefighter’s frustration with scrambling to fire hydrants for water sparked an idea: Meet the Heli-Hydrant

    By Dorany Pineda, Brittany Peterson, and others
  • City councilmember Christian Luna-Leal poses for a portrait in front of a detention pond containing mine waste in Leadville, Colo., on Wednesday, June 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert)Environment

    Colorado home of National Mining Museum dubious about plan to ‘remine’ gold from local mine waste

    By Matthew Brown, Brittany Peterson, and others
  • Alan MazzottiEnvironment

    ‘There’s no future after me’: Colorado pumpkin man says drought, labor, water issues will end his family business. ‘My boys won’t farm’

    By Melina Walling, Brittany Peterson, and others
  • LAKE POWELL, UTAH – APRIL 15: A bathtub ring seen above the waterline around Lake Powell was created during drought that reduced the flow of the Colorado River on April 15, 2023 in Lake Powell, Utah. The flight for aerial photography was provided by LightHawk.(Photo by RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)Environment

    Mammoth snow year has lifted half the West out of drought and promises to raise parched Lake Powell by 60 feet

    By Brittany Peterson and The Associated Press
  • Eric SeufertEnvironment

    America’s western water crisis is so bad that Colorado is going to start drinking recycled sewage

    By Brittany Peterson and The Associated Press