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Greens need to occupy the Occupy movement

Today's activists need to get more involved in protesting the environmental profiteering that is destroying our planet.

by Tim Lydon, Dec 16, 2011
When the locals don't want your coal, sell it overseas

Global markets could keep Powder River Basin coal flowing overseas for decades to come.

by Jonathan Thompson, Jul 24, 2011
Chill, baby, chill

The largest drilling boom in Western history is ending as new technologies make it easier to get shale gas from other parts of the country.

by Randy Udall, May 01, 2009
U.S. Department of Energy elbows in on Clean Water Act

The federal Energy Department and the state of Wyoming have challenged Montana’s plan to establish pollution controls for coalbed methane wells

by Sarah Gilman, Mar 20, 2006
The view from above

High Country News prides itself on keeping close to the ground, but for this special issue, we look at the energy boom in the West from a global perspective

by Greg Hanscom, Dec 12, 2005
Wastewater goes unwatched

Wyoming’s runaway energy boom is taking on toll on the state’s land, especially when the industry’s salty wastewater spills or leaches into the ground

by J.M. McCord, Mar 07, 2005
The BLM wields fork and spatula over the West's wildlands

The Bureau of Land Management is handing out public-lands drilling permits like a McDonald’s drive-through with a hyperactive "Order Assembly Target."

by Matt Jenkins, Feb 07, 2005
Hunting: It’s not about the gun

In the presidential election this fall, sportsmen are likely to be split between those who vote for wildlife, and those who vote for the gun

by Tom Reed, Oct 11, 2004
Oil money rules in the West's mini-Middle East

Two Democratic governors – Dave Freudenthal of Wyoming and Bill Richardson of New Mexico – find themselves caught between the money that comes from the energy industry and the environmental impacts of oil and gas development

by Paul Krza, Jun 21, 2004
Gas wells wash out habitat

Environmental scientist James Gore warns that the water that coalbed methane wells pours into streams could wipe out up to 30 aquatic species in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming and Montana

by Josh Garrett-Davis, Dec 08, 2003
State struggling to keep up with CBM

A state task force says pollution regulations for coalbed methane wells are severely under-enforced in Wyoming

by Josh Garrett-Davis, Nov 24, 2003

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Results for keyword: Powder River Basin

Greens need to occupy the Occupy movement

When the locals don't want your coal, sell it overseas

Chill, baby, chill

U.S. Department of Energy elbows in on Clean Water Act

The view from above

Wastewater goes unwatched

The BLM wields fork and spatula over the West's wildlands

Hunting: It’s not about the gun

Oil money rules in the West's mini-Middle East

Gas wells wash out habitat

State struggling to keep up with CBM

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