Energy
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Writers on the Range
A fresh focus on frack attacks
In all the fuss about fracking, the many other problems caused by rampant oil and gas development are being overlooked.
by Jonathan Thompson, Mar 01, 2012 -
Writers on the Range
Our nuclear legacy should have taught us something
Utah considers building a nuclear power plant despite the fact that it's still cleaning up the mess left over from the last uranium boom.
by Jen Jackson, Feb 27, 2012 -
Current
Obama praises natural gas, but is there enough to satisfy U.S. demand?
In his State of the Union speech, President Obama tried to please everyone, but even his renewable energy proposals rely on finding more natural gas than may exist.
by Judith Lewis Mernit, Feb 19, 2012 -
Current
Greenhouse gas sources, emitters and effects
Although the West supplies most of the nation’s coal, the effects of coal-fired plant emissions are felt much further afield.
by Danielle Venton, Feb 05, 2012 -
Current
A mom-and-pop oil company prospects for gas in central Wyoming
Wold Oil Properties is a wildcatter - a small company that explores for oil and gas in areas where the fuels aren't known to exist in valuable quantities.
by Emilene Ostlind, Jan 31, 2012 -
Writers on the Range
Let the EPA finish its work in Pavillion, Wyoming
The gas industry and its political partners are going to great lengths to try to derail and discredit an EPA report that blames Pavillion, Wyoming’s polluted water on hydraulic fracking.
by John Fenton, Jan 23, 2012 -
Conversation
Colorado's green(ish) gas baron
A conversation with Ed Warner about energy, academics and the environment
by Joshua Zaffos, Jan 21, 2012 -
News
On Keystone XL route, states allow different risks, reap different benefits
An InsideClimate News comparison shows that, of the six states the proposed pipeline moves through, only Montana has authority to re-route the pipeline, and Kansas has given TransCanada a 10-year tax exemption.
by Lisa Song, InsideClimate News, Jan 09, 2012 -
Current
Boulder, Colo., votes for energy independence -- from its utility
After a hard-fought political campaign the town of Boulder passed a ballot initiative allowing it to create its own municipal utility in order to help reach its ambitious environmental goals.
by Nathan Rice, Dec 27, 2011 -
Writers on the Range
Tips for a bright - and efficient - Christmas
LED light bulbs will light up your life -- and reduce the need for new, polluting coal power plants.
by Russ Doty and Holly Wilde, Dec 14, 2011 -
Letters
The trouble with transmission
by Dan Olsen, Dec 11, 2011 -
News
Feds Link Water Contamination to Fracking for the First Time
The Environmental Protection Agency finds a connection between fracking and water pollution
by Abrahm Lustgarten and Nicholas Kusnetz, ProPublica, Dec 09, 2011 -
Current
Feds attempt to speed complicated process of building power lines
The Obama administration's electrical transmission permitting agencies are cooperating to speed grid updates and fast track clean energy projects, as demand for power grows.
by Sarah Gilman, Nov 15, 2011 -
Current
BLM experiments with camouflage to hide renewable power structures
The Bureau of Land Management is working with landscape architects and camouflage experts to better disguise renewable energy infrastructure on public lands.
by Kimberly Hirai, Nov 03, 2011 -
Letters
A plunderer is a plunderer
by Bradley Berthold, Aug 16, 2011






