Energy
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Current
Unpacking health hazards in fracking's chemical cocktail
A look at the ingredients used in hydraulic fracturing fluid in Wyoming.
by Sierra Crane-Murdoch, Feb 20, 2011 -
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Inside Taft High
Teacher Ted Pendergrass and his students take us inside the first high school in the country devoted to oil production.
by Molly Samuel, Feb 13, 2011 -
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Fast Times at California's Petroleum High
A day in the life of the U.S.'s first high school academy devoted to oil production.
by Jeremy Miller, Feb 13, 2011 -
Current
The latest: Biomass emissions
The EPA will not regulate greenhouse gas emissions from biomass facilities for the next three years.
by Jodi Peterson, Feb 06, 2011 -
Current
The latest: Wyoming Range
PXP will be allowed to develop 136 gas natural gas wells in the Wyoming Range.
by Emilene Ostlind, Jan 23, 2011 -
Current
Decades of drilling
A graphic shows how Western states stack up against Texas and the Eastern U.S. when it comes to oil and gas drilling.
by Cally Carswell, Jan 23, 2011 -
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Pinon Ridge uranium mill clears state hurdle
Colorado moves one step closer to kickstarting a new Western uranium boom.
by Nathan Rice, Jan 18, 2011 -
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High Country Views, Big solar marches on
Cally Carswell talks with HCN contributing editor Judith Lewis about the muscle the feds are putting behind solar energy development on public land.
by Cally Carswell, Dec 27, 2010 -
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Oil and Water Don't Mix with California Agriculture
In Kern County, Calif., the oil industry shares land and water with fruit-growers and farmers -- not always comfortably.
by Jeremy Miller, Dec 15, 2010 -
Writers on the Range
It was written on the wind
Remembering the untimely death of a "downwinder" brother from New Mexico.
by Ernie Atencio, Dec 13, 2010 -
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High Country Views: Anticline deer decline
Emilene Ostlind talks with former federal biologist Rollin Sparrowe about energy development on the Pinedale Anticline and its impact on wildlife.
by Emilene Ostlind and Cally Carswell, Dec 10, 2010 -
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The supposedly protected Wyoming Range faces new energy development
Roughnecks and hunters are fighting plans to drill for natural gas in the Hoback-Noble Basin of the Wyoming Range.
by Emilene Ostlind, Dec 07, 2010 -
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Mixing oil and water in California
Farmers and the oil industry clash over water in Kern County, Calif.
by Brian Pollack, This American Land, Dec 05, 2010 -
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Our forest
Hunters in Wyoming's Noble Basin protest proposed gas drilling
by Emilene Ostlind, Dec 06, 2010 -
Current
Conservation calculus
Energy companies in Wyoming's Jonah Field are funding habitat preservation, but no one seems to know how the wildlife's doing.
by Rebecca Huntington, Sep 02, 2010






