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Living With Uncertainty: An Inside Energy Podcast Special

By Leigh Paterson | March 31, 2018

Is having oil and gas development nearby bad for your health? In this story, we’re going to dig into what is known and what is unknown about these dangers and why those unknowns still exist, as more and more wells are drilled. We’re going to meet different people with different perspectives, who are all gathering data or studying it. They’re looking for answers and living with unknowns.

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Living With Uncertainty: An Inside Energy Podcast Special

Is having oil and gas development nearby bad for your health? In this story, we’re going to dig into what is known and what is unknown about these dangers and why those unknowns still exist, as more and more wells are drilled. We’re going to meet different people with different perspectives, who are all gathering data or studying it. They’re looking for answers and living with unknowns.
Invisible Leaks: Where “Clean” Natural Gas Falls Short

A natural gas boom in the U.S. is changing the power sector in the country. It's credited with bringing down American carbon dioxide emissions more than any other factor. But, one difficult to control component of the natural gas industry threatens to undermine those gains.
Animations Make The Invisible, Visible

We wanted to find a way to make the invisible aspects of energy more visible and more accessible to the average person. So we dug into the ways it intersects our lives on an everyday basis. We worked on this project in collaboration with student animators from the University of Colorado-Boulder’s College of Media, Communication and Information. The student animators, with assistance from Inside Energy staff, produced this series of videos that highlight the often invisible aspects of energy and its role in our lives.
Tax Reform’s Impact On Western Energy

Tax reform is going to impact renewables, oil and gas, and energy overall in the western U.S. Now that the President has signed the final tax bill into law, what does it mean for western energy? Inside Energy helps unpack.
Trump Administration’s Slow But Sure Energy Dominance Agenda

President Trump campaigned on a platform to make American energy great again. "We're loaded," he said, at a 2016 campaign appearance in North Dakota, referring to fossil fuel reserves. By unleashing those reserves and slashing regulations, Trump promised, he would usher in an era of "energy independence" and, ultimately, American energy dominance. In fact, on energy and environment, Trump is slowly making headway on those goals, with help from a trio of powerful and like-minded cabinet members.
Three Animations To Help You Understand Fracking

A series of animated "explainers" produced in collaboration with AirWaterGas on the rise of fracking, water use in fracking, and the high stakes game of deciding where to drill.

IE Questions: Where Does Fracking Water Go?

You asked? We answered! Lisa Gardiner of the UCAR Center for Science Education and AirWaterGas helped us answer an audience question: What happens to all the water that comes up after a well is hydraulically fractured?
IE Questions: Super Grid! Spanning Continents In A Single Bound!

Somewhere in the world, the sun and wind are always shining and blowing, and people are always using electricity. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could get renewable power from the windy and sunny places to the power hungry places? That was presumably the thinking behind a question posed by an Inside Energy audience member: Would transmission losses be too high to sustain an international green power electrical grid? We answer it in this video explainer.
Video: Our Relationship With Energy Is Broken, So Let’s Fix It

Some people are obsessed with energy. Some are beyond bored. Others are bursting with questions. And more often than not, people talk about energy as if it's a friend they haven’t talked to in years and keep meaning to call...but never do. This talk looks at how our relationship with energy is broken, and what we can do to fix it.
The Uncertain Future Of Energy R&D

The election of Donald Trump has raised questions about the future of federal funding for energy research and development. We dig into the numbers.
Your Most Pressing Dakota Access Pipeline Questions, Answered

What’s going on with that pipeline in North Dakota? Momentum behind the Dakota Access pipeline protests has been building for months. The 1,200 mile-long pipeline project is controversial, involving many big-picture interests, issues, and plenty of misinformation. You've been flooding us with great questions, and we're answering them.
Surprises In Oil And Gas Campaign Spending

Fossil fuel companies have a history of backing Republican candidates. But this year’s unusual presidential campaign appears to be having a strange ripple effect on political giving -- at least from the oil and gas industry.

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Living With Uncertainty: An Inside Energy Podcast Special

By Leigh Paterson | March 31, 2018

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