Theodore Roosevelt National Park is not immune to effects of the Bakken oil boom.
Oil
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Should oil pipelines be better regulated instead of flat out opposed?
Conversation with an author of a new book on pipeline rust, regulation and safety.
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Interior considers hike in oil and gas royalty rates
Industry opposes reforms at a time when low oil prices deter drilling.
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On a methane mystery tour in the Four Corners region
Scientists, planes and instruments descend on San Juan Basin to find roots of the massive greenhouse gas hotspot.
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Drilling Chaco: What’s actually at stake
It’s the archaeological landscape beyond New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon that is most threatened.
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BLM’s new fracking rules strike middle ground
But they’re unlikely to resolve today’s fierce skirmishes over oil and gas development.
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Jewell vows to make energy development on public lands cleaner
A long-delayed fracking rule will be announced within days.
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Latest: A Washington county puts the brakes on a new oil-train facility
In the wake of recent oil-train derailments, Skagit County wants Shell to do a full environmental review.
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Lessons from boom and bust in New Mexico
What we can learn from the oil and gas roller coaster ride in Farmington and beyond.
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An oil well, by the numbers
A deep dive into drilling, operating and producing.
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Jewell, Murkowski square off
The Interior Secretary and Alaskan Senator spar over money and the environment.
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Keystone isn’t the only pipeline proposal out there
As XL languishes in political controversy, new pipeline projects gain ground in Canada and Alaska.
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Don’t expect oil prices to rebound anytime soon
Global forces conspire to keep energy prices low, for better and worse.
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Latest: California fracking companies inject protected aquifers with wastewater
EPA found that state regulators allowed 2,500 to be contaminated.
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Statistical realism
David Hughes crunches unpopular numbers for the shale oil boom.
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The Latest: New Mexico fracking ban overturned
A win for industry in the nation’s first county to ban the practice.
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Wastewater pipelines often leak in North Dakota
Breaches in pipelines that carry water away from the oilfields can have devastating consequences.
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Fractivists target Denver to build support
A new campaign launches to stop fracking before it starts in and around Denver.