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    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/45.1/oil-boom-spurs-a-rush-on-extractive-education-programs">        <title>Oil boom spurs a rush on extractive education programs</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/45.1/oil-boom-spurs-a-rush-on-extractive-education-programs</link>        <description>As production from unconventional reserves ramps up, students are flooding into university and technical programs supporting oil and gas development.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jeremy Miller</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Harold Hamm</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Unconventional reserves</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Geological engineering</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bakken</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Williston State</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Industry-funded academics</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>University of North Dakota</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Petroleum engineering</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2013-02-27T17:53:49Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.15/the-recent-bay-area-chevron-explosion-shows-gaps-in-refinery-safety">        <title>The Bay Area Chevron explosion shows gaps in refinery safety</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.15/the-recent-bay-area-chevron-explosion-shows-gaps-in-refinery-safety</link>        <description>Oil refineries pose serious health hazards for nearby residents as well as workers, as the recent explosion in Richmond and other incidents, like one in Sinclair, Wyo., have made clear.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jeremy Miller</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Oil refinery worker safety</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Chemical Safety Board</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Refinery safety</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Air pollution</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oil refineries</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Refinery explosions</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>OSHA</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Toxic releases</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>EPA</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oil refinery safety</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Green Justice</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Public health</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Chevron Richmond refinery fire</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-09-10T19:23:25Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.12/will-utahs-tar-sands-make-it-the-alberta-of-the-high-desert">        <title>Will Utah's tar sands make it the Alberta of the high desert?</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.12/will-utahs-tar-sands-make-it-the-alberta-of-the-high-desert</link>        <description>Calgary-based U.S. Oil Sands says it's ready to take its exploratory effort in eastern Utah’s Tavaputs Plateau commercial. </description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jeremy Miller</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Tavaputs Plateau</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Groundwater pollution</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wildlife habitat</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bitumen</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Hot Times</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>PR Spring</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oil and gas industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>global warming</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Uintah Basin</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Tar sands</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>d-Limonene</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>John Weisheit</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Utah wildlife habitat</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Fossil fuels</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Utah Gov. Gary Herbert</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-08-01T15:06:10Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.5/following-the-old-spanish-trail-across-the-southwest">        <title>Following the Old Spanish Trail across the Southwest</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.5/following-the-old-spanish-trail-across-the-southwest</link>        <description>Archaeologist Jack Pfertsh looks for marks on the landscape and artifact fragments to retrace the historic route near Delta, Colo.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jeremy Miller</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Western pioneer trails</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>national historic trails</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jack Pfertsh</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Old Spanish Trail</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>archaeology</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-04-06T14:29:07Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.9/book-review-infinite-city-a-san-francisco-atlas">        <title>The endless atlas: A review of Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.9/book-review-infinite-city-a-san-francisco-atlas</link>        <description>Rebecca Solnit assembles historical, legendary, and artistic tidbits and tales along with glorious maps in her new book.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jeremy Miller</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>California history</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Rebecca Solnit</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>maps</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>nonfiction</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>atlas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Infinite City</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>San Francisco</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>essays</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>geography</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-06-20T21:59:37Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.2/fast-times-at-californias-petroleum-high">        <title>Fast Times at California's Petroleum High</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.2/fast-times-at-californias-petroleum-high</link>        <description>A day in the life of the U.S.'s first high school academy devoted to oil production.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jeremy Miller</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Greenville High School</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wildfires</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>ecology</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Plumas National Forest</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>forest health</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Sidney Deschenes</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Moonlight Fire</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>education</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-02-14T15:52:49Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.21/oil-and-water-dont-mix-with-california-agriculture">        <title>Oil and Water Don't Mix with California Agriculture</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.21/oil-and-water-dont-mix-with-california-agriculture</link>        <description>In Kern County, Calif., the oil industry shares land and water with fruit-growers and farmers -- not always comfortably.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jeremy Miller</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>produced water</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Fred Starrh</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oilfields</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>heavy oil</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>California agriculture</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Hondo Chemical</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Aera Energy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>contaminated groundwater</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>EPA</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-02-03T16:04:21Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.17/once-more-unto-the-breach">        <title>Once More Unto The Breach</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.17/once-more-unto-the-breach</link>        <description>Controversial guidebook author Michael Kelsey takes a writer into Utah's notorious Black Hole.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jeremy Miller</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Aron Ralston</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>slot canyons</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Utah canyon country</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>canyoneering</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>White Canyon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Blue John canyon complex</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Michael Kelsey</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hiking guidebooks</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-10-11T21:51:17Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.1/mountains-of-mercury">        <title>Mountains of mercury</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.1/mountains-of-mercury</link>        <description>The EPA has failed to regulate the mercury discharged from cement plants like the one in Durkee, Ore.  </description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jeremy Miller</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>mercury</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Clean Air Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>air pollution</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Idaho Conservation League</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Portland cement</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Justin Hayes</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ash Grove cement plant</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>methymercury</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>EPA</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:14:45Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.18/a-new-kind-of-ministry">        <title>A new kind of ministry</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.18/a-new-kind-of-ministry</link>        <description>Tom Simbo, who faced down gun-toting soldiers in Sierra Leone, now works with other immigrants in Denver, Colo.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jeremy Miller</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Torture victims</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Refugees</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Sierra Leone</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Denver</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Tom Simbo</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:55:58Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/articles/on-the-waterfront">        <title>On the waterfront </title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/articles/on-the-waterfront</link>        <description>Bay Area environmental leader Whitney Dotson works to restore his community's waterways -- and health.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jeremy Miller</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>East Bay</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>watershed restoration</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Whitney Dotson</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental justice</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Green Justice</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:58:57Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.10/rebooting-the-urban-watershed-movement">        <title>Rebooting Urban Watersheds </title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.10/rebooting-the-urban-watershed-movement</link>        <description>In California, grassroots activists work to restore damaged East Bay waterways and the impoverished communities that surround them.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jeremy Miller</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Green Justice</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>river restoration</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>urban waterways</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>green jobs</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>East Bay Area</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Josh Bradt</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:50:55Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>



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