High Country News

Fracking is the big new gun

Hydraulic fracturing is changing the energy industry -- and the entire nation -- in ways we’re only beginning to understand.

by Randy Udall, Mar 29, 2012

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, Feb 01, 2012

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 24, 2012

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

$Hydrofracked: One man's quest for answers about natural gas drilling$

Hydrofracked: One man's quest for answers about natural gas drilling

A Wyoming farmer battles industry and bureaucracy trying to find out whether hydraulic fracturing -- used in natural gas drilling -- polluted his drinking water.

by Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, Jun 26, 2011

A lonely crusade

A Wyoming farmer's long struggle to find out what's polluting his water gets the attention of the EPA - and inspires reporter Abrahm Lustgarten of ProPublica.

by Ray Ring, Jun 26, 2011

$Abrahm Lustgarten on fracking$

Abrahm Lustgarten on fracking

An interview with ProPublica energy and environment reporter Abrahm Lustgarten.

by Cally Carswell, Jun 27, 2011

The oil spill's upshot

The tragic BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico could help the environmental movement, if greens act wisely.

by Ray Ring , Jun 18, 2010

High Country Views, episode 7

Rachel Waldholz, Sarah Gilman and Cally Carswell talk fracking and onshore oil and gas drilling.

by Cally Carswell, Jun 15, 2010

Drilling on the green

Residents of Battlement Mesa react to gas drilling in their community.

by Lisa Song, Jun 14, 2010

Frack 2, Scene 1

New York City fights drilling in its watershed, and even some energy executives say the industry needs to be more transparent about the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing.

by Sarah Gilman, Nov 17, 2009