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    Unpacking health hazards in fracking's chemical cocktail

    A look at the ingredients used in hydraulic fracturing fluid in Wyoming.

  • Multimedia Inside Taft High

    Inside Taft High

    Teacher Ted Pendergrass and his students take us inside the first high school in the country devoted to oil production.

  • Current Fast Times at California's Petroleum High

    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.

  • Current

    The latest: Biomass emissions

    The EPA will not regulate greenhouse gas emissions from biomass facilities for the next three years.

  • Current The latest: Wyoming Range

    The latest: Wyoming Range

    PXP will be allowed to develop 136 gas natural gas wells in the Wyoming Range.

  • Current Decades of drilling

    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.

  • Multimedia Pinon Ridge uranium mill clears state hurdle

    Pinon Ridge uranium mill clears state hurdle

    Colorado moves one step closer to kickstarting a new Western uranium boom.

  • Multimedia High Country Views, Big solar marches on

    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.

  • Feature Oil and Water Don't Mix with California Agriculture

    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.

  • Writers on the Range It was written on the wind

    It was written on the wind

    Remembering the untimely death of a "downwinder" brother from New Mexico.

  • Multimedia High Country Views: Anticline deer decline

    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.

  • Current The supposedly protected Wyoming Range faces new energy development

    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.

  • Multimedia Mixing oil and water in California

    Mixing oil and water in California

    Farmers and the oil industry clash over water in Kern County, Calif.

  • Multimedia Our forest

    Our forest

    Hunters in Wyoming's Noble Basin protest proposed gas drilling

  • Current Conservation calculus

    Conservation calculus

    Energy companies in Wyoming's Jonah Field are funding habitat preservation, but no one seems to know how the wildlife's doing.

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