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Living On Top Of Forgotten Oil And Gas Wells
It came as news to Jeff Parsek that state records show there is an abandoned oil and gas well in his driveway. Parsek lives in a large, brown ranch house, right across the street from an elementary...
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Wage Theft Claims Surge As Oil Prices Fall
Bruce Friest asks himself if he would have done it again, knowing what he knows now – move from Minnesota to start a small trucking company during the peak of North Dakota’s oil boom. “I don’t know if...
View Article“Senseless Exposures”: How Money and Federal Rules Endanger Oilfield Workers
Truck driver Ryan Ehlis checks his tires before heading out for a night of hauling crude oil around the Bakken oilfield. Ehlis says being exposed to petroleum gas is an unavoidable part of his...
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As Coal Mining Continues, What Does Bankruptcy Mean On The Ground?
Peabody Energy is one of the largest coal companies in the world and operates mines all over the United States. But some of its senior lenders are now recommending bankruptcy, as the company faces...
View ArticleMysterious Gas Leak In A Town Surrounded By Wells
The search is continuing for the source of a gas leak that shut down a school in Midwest, Wyoming at the end of May. Fleur de Lis, the company that operates the neighboring Salt Creek oil field, says...
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Why Everyone In Colorado Is Fighting Over Your Signature
Chris Goodwin’s pitch opens with the same question every time: “Are you a Colorado voter?” Leigh Paterson / Inside EnergyChris Goodwin is being paid $13 an hour to collect signatures for two oil and...
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Coal Clean Up, Texas Style
Amid a wave of historic coal bankruptcies, states like Texas and Colorado have taken proactive steps to make sure coal companies are on the hook for their future cleanup costs while in Wyoming, over $1...
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The Numbers Behind Our Clean Power Plan Video (Or Lightning Bolts And The...
Inside Energy recently made a video about what the Clean Power Plan means for you (if you haven’t seen it yet, go check it out!). And in that video, we used a lot of numbers: 98 quadrillion Btu (the...
View ArticleCleaning Up Coal: Folly Or The Future?
President Donald Trump loves coal. He has given dozens of speeches saying, “My administration is putting an end to the war on coal. We’re going to have clean coal, really clean coal.” But what...
View ArticleInvisible Leaks: Where “Clean” Natural Gas Falls Short
New technologies, including fracking, have transformed the natural gas industry over the last decade, bringing down utility bills and creating countless jobs and other opportunities in shale fields...
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