All you need to know, and then some, about selling U.S. oil overseas.
Items by Jonathan Thompson
Scientists zero in on the culprits behind a giant plume of greenhouse gases.
The nuts and bolts of acid mine drainage.
The greenhouse gas that seeps from underground is both a problem and opportunity.
Mapping the other threats to the Animas and San Juan Rivers.
Reporter Doug Fox wins a big award for his HCN story, ‘Dust Detectives.’
Nine things you need to know about the Animas River mine waste spill.
Is it time to diversify the West's transportation options?
Documenting recreation on Instagram, Strava and YouTube is changing the way we experience the outdoors.
Natural gas, wind and solar fill some of the hydropower deficit in California.
Conflicting county and state proposals would provide various levels of protection.
A thousand pipeline ruptures or spills reported nationwide in the past five years.
Plus, enough gas has escaped infrastructure since 2010 to heat 170,000 homes for a year.
Demand increases, but rig counts plummet and workers continue to get laid off.
The mines are still in business, yet towns that once flourished are now mostly gone.
Powerwall aims to fill a missing link to integrate wind and solar into the grid.
County commissioner and co-defendant face up to a year in jail for illegal ATV ride.
Sprawl rises from its slumber, but urban renaissance is still thriving.
Scientists, planes and instruments descend on San Juan Basin to find roots of the massive greenhouse gas hotspot.
Where they’re from, where they go and where they spend their money.
It's the archaeological landscape beyond New Mexico's Chaco Canyon that is most threatened.
Southwest Colorado's snowpack is dismal and melting fast.
Reporters Notebook from New Mexico's San Juan Basin.
Communities once sustained by local labor now rely on stock market dividends.
What we can learn from the oil and gas roller coaster ride in Farmington and beyond.
A deep dive into drilling, operating and producing.
Global forces conspire to keep energy prices low, for better and worse.
HCN’ers get into the backcountry, editor Betsy Marston sees Berlin and art director Cindy Wehling takes a trip to Hawaii.
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