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The Bureau of Land Management used a large number of "categorical exclusions" to streamline permitting for oil and gas development.
by Sarah Gilman,
Nov 04, 2009
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With global warming threatening the planet, even environmentalists are looking more kindly at natural gas.
by Randy Udall,
Aug 14, 2009
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Why not mine oil shale here in the West, but send it off to be processed somewhere else?
by Ed Quillen ,
Aug 11, 2009
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The Forest Service wants to create a new type of
"categorical exclusion" to make it easier for oil and gas drilling
projects to be approved without environmental study or public
input
by Emma Brown,
Jul 16, 2008
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The House of Representatives passes an energy bill with even more industrial pork than the Bush administration requested.
by Laura Paskus,
Jul 16, 2008
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Just as western Colorado towns like Rifle have begun a new
life as thriving “amenity” economies, an energy boom of
unprecedented proportions has taken over the landscape.
by Jonathan Thompson,
May 12, 2008
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When an energy developer boasted that oil and gas wells
were good for wildlife, Laura Paskus examined the issue and came to
another conclusion.
by Laura Paskus,
May 14, 2007
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The energy boom in the Rocky Mountain West has been
shadowed by a much darker boom: a frightening rise in death and
serious injury
by John Mecklin,
Jul 16, 2008
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At least 89 people died in the energy fields of Colorado,
Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Utah and Wyoming during the last
six years
by Ray Ring,
Apr 02, 2007
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Without a college degree, work on the oil and gas fields
is the best job you can get in the rural West – unless, of
course, it kills you
by Ray Ring,
Apr 02, 2007