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    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/318/16175">        <title>The Latest Bounce</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/318/16175</link>        <description>EPA abandons attempt to regulate hydraulic fracturing; BLM
briefly cuts forestry school funding and Republican Rep. Greg
Walden grills logging critic Dan Donato; California regulator tries
to stop ecological crash in San Francisco Bay-Delta</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Matt Jenkins</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>EPA</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>coalbed methane</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hydraulic fracturing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>frac’ing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>whistleblowers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>toxic chemicals</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Clean Water Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mark Udall</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Nikki Tinsley</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>groundwater contamination</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oregon State
University school of forestry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>BLM</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Dan Donato</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-12-15T16:53:13Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.21/producing-more-power-means-using-more-water">        <title>Producing more power means using more water</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.21/producing-more-power-means-using-more-water</link>        <description>Federal agencies often overlook the tight relationship
between energy production and water use. </description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Judith Lewis Mernit</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>energy-water nexus</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil shale</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Energy production</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hydraulic fracturing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Water</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>tar sands</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2013-01-02T15:55:58Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.3/obama-praises-natural-gas-but-is-there-enough-to-satisfy-us-demand">        <title>Obama praises natural gas, but is there enough to satisfy U.S. demand?</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.3/obama-praises-natural-gas-but-is-there-enough-to-satisfy-us-demand</link>        <description>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.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Judith Lewis Mernit</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>natural gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>fracking chemicals</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>renewable energy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Obama environmental policy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hydraulic fracturing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Obama State of the Union speech</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Obama in the West</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Obama energy policy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>U.S. natural gas supply</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>solar power</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-02-20T19:57:21Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/montanans-close-to-yellowstone-better-wake-up">        <title>Montanans close to Yellowstone better wake up</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/montanans-close-to-yellowstone-better-wake-up</link>        <description>The oil and gas industry -- and its many environmental side effects -- are coming to Montana's Yellowstone country.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Andrea Peacock</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Yellowstone River</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>groundwater pollution</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hydraulic fracturing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oil and gas drilling</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-09-14T17:04:58Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/let-the-epa-finish-its-work-in-pavillion-wyoming">        <title>Let the EPA finish its work in Pavillion, Wyoming</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/let-the-epa-finish-its-work-in-pavillion-wyoming</link>        <description>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.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>John Fenton</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>groundwater pollution</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>ranchers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>fracking chemicals</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wyoming</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>fracking</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hydraulic fracturing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Pavillion</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drinking water</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>water pollution</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>toxic chemicals</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>EPA</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-01-25T16:55:03Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/261/14334">        <title>Gas industry gets cracking</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/261/14334</link>        <description>Environmentalists and landowners are worried about the use
of hydraulic fracturing to extract coalbed methane, but the
industry – and the EPA – are carefully protecting the
process and its secrets</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Brian Maffly</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Coalbed Methane</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Coalbed methane</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hydraulic fracturing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>frac’ing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy development</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oil and Gas Accountability
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                    <dc:subject>Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Environmental
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                    <dc:subject>EPA</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Legal Environmental Assistance
Foundation</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:55:04Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/gas-drilling-has-blighted-my-life">        <title>Gas drilling has blighted my life </title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/gas-drilling-has-blighted-my-life</link>        <description>We need energy -- but not at the cost of clean water</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Louis Meeks</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Encana</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>groundwater pollution</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>ranchers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oil and gas drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hydraulic fracturing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Louis Meeks</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-10-12T17:49:51Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.17/frack-forward">        <title>Frack forward</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.17/frack-forward</link>        <description>Wyoming's tough new hydraulic fracturing rules are meant to keep federal regulators at bay.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Cally Carswell</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>sage grouse</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Powder River Basin Resource Council</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Dave Freudenthal</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wyoming state government</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hydraulic fracturing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>endangered species</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-10-05T19:46:57Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.20/frack-2-scene-1">        <title>Frack 2, Scene 1</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.20/frack-2-scene-1</link>        <description>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. </description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Sarah Gilman</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>groundwater pollution</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Marcellus Shale</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>fracking</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hydraulic fracturing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>FRAC Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Chesapeake Energy</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:27:17Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/297/15470">        <title>Follow-up</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/297/15470</link>        <description>Montana approves green-power initiative; geothermal
company takes Valles Caldera Preserve to court; bills to exempt
hydraulic fracturing from regulation; William Jensen Cottrell
sentenced for SUV vandalism</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Matt Jenkins</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Montana Legislature</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Brian Schweitzer</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>renewable energy
standard</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>geothermal power</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>GeoProducts of New Mexico</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Valles
Caldera National Preserve</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Valles Caldera Trust</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Los Alamos
National Laboratory</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hydraulic fracturing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>coalbed methane</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and
gas indus</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:24:31Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/296/15435">        <title>Follow-up</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/296/15435</link>        <description>EPA will investigate allegations that bunk science led to
approval of hydraulic fracturing; racketeering lawsuit against
environmentalist dismissed; ACLU sues over BLM’s decision to
Wyoming’s Martin’s Cove historic site to Mormon
Church</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Matt Jenkins</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>EPA</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Nikki L. Tinsley</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hydraulic fracturing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>frac’ing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>bunk science</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>whistleblowers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Weston Wilson</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>coalbed methane drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>toxic chemicals</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>groundwater
contamination</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>water pollution</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Sandy Steers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Manuel Real</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Big Bear
Lake</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>California</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Friends of Faw</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:24:19Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.15/epa-aims-to-clean-up-polluted-air-in-western-gas-fields">        <title>EPA aims to clean up polluted air in Western gas fields</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.15/epa-aims-to-clean-up-polluted-air-in-western-gas-fields</link>        <description>The federal government sets its sights on clearing the air above gas operations</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Cally Carswell</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>air pollution</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>sulfur dioxide</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hydraulic fracturing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>ozone</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Natural gas wells</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>volatile organic compounds</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>EPA</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-09-06T15:53:07Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/289/15179">        <title>Conscientious Objectors</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/289/15179</link>        <description>Under increasing political pressure from the Bush
administration and its appointees, agency scientists find it
difficult to keep both their jobs and their integrity</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Laura Paskus</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Public Lands</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Science</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Federal
Employees</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Whistle Blowers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>whistleblowers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>federal employees</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>public employees</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>scientists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>federal biologists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>PEER</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jeff Ruch</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Weston Wilson</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Earle Dixon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hydraulic fracturing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>frac’ing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas
industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>coalbed methane</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wendell and Kay Goad</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>government
agencies</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>U.S. Fis</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:22:21Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/a-new-mantra-for-the-oil-patch">        <title>Chill, baby, chill</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/a-new-mantra-for-the-oil-patch</link>        <description>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. </description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Randy Udall</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Powder River Basin</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hydraulic fracturing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>shale gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>geologists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>natural gas</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:19:33Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.13/a-western-mystery-with-an-environmental-twist-a-review-of-buried-by-the-roan">        <title>A Western mystery with an environmental twist: a review of Buried by the Roan</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.13/a-western-mystery-with-an-environmental-twist-a-review-of-buried-by-the-roan</link>        <description>In Mark Stevens' second novel, Allison Coil, a tequila-drinking hunting guide, investigates a mysterious death in a remote landscape much sought after by oil and gas developers.  </description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Erica Olsen</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>women detectives</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Buried by the Roan</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mark Stevens</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hunters</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>novels</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hydraulic fracturing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>fiction</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mysteries</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mystery series</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-08-05T22:18:06Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>



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