A tangled history of profit, tragedy and unfulfilled dreams.
Items by Jonathan Thompson
Low prices have energy companies and communities reeling as rig counts plummet and unemployment climbs.
The national park system does more than celebrate beauty. It also commemorates the ugliest parts of our past.
Where a sprawling network of actors find common cause.
How rural ‘constitutional’ peace officers are joining the war against the feds.
FBI calls for removal of occupiers following eight arrests and the death of one man late Tuesday.
The rule will help conserve natural gas and mitigate pollution, targeting 100,000 existing wells.
California’s Aliso Canyon is a reminder that methane emissions are widespread, poorly regulated — and ongoing.
Today’s movement is a radical, perverted version of the 1970s-80s rebellion.
Here are the most vocal occupiers, along with a core group of militia members staying in Burns.
A look at how the feds have — and have not — punished individuals for defying regulations.
A new science and education center gives rural Utah a boost.
Aliso Canyon has leaked more greenhouse gases in two months than a coal mine does in a year.
Utilities should view legalization as an opportunity, not a threat.
Eight things you need to know about coalbed methane mining.
How ‘Blood & Oil’ in today’s Bakken and ‘Dynasty’ in a 1980s Colorado match up.
A new study finds other energy extraction methods have a bigger impact.
All you need to know, and then some, about selling U.S. oil overseas.
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.
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