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Wage Theft Claims Surge As Oil Prices Fall
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Continuing low oil prices have left tens of thousands of oil workers out of a job.
Now, a growing number of them are turning to the courts, saying they weren’t paid fairly when times were good.
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Continuing low oil prices have left tens of thousands of oil workers out of a job.
Now, a growing number of them are turning to the courts, saying they weren’t paid fairly when times were good.
2015 was a year marked by a dramatic reversal of fortune in the oil industry. Crude oil prices dropped down to a third of their 2014 highs, effectively pouring ice water on America’s shale revolution. What does that mean for the year ahead?
It takes a lot of energy to produce the food we eat, but technologies are improving to give some of that energy back to us after we’re finished with it.
This Thanksgiving our holiday feast will contain 4500 calories. Those calories are just a measure of energy, and that food was produced using fossil fuels. In this video, Inside Energy’s Dan Boyce explains how fossil fuels are, in fact, your food.
When oil and gas drilling bumps up next to homes and communities, there are tensions. That has long been evident in Colorado, where a handful of cities have fought to ban the practice within their borders. Now, state regulators are considering some new rules which would would give local governments more input over oil and gas development.
Colorado sits right in the middle of the political battle for the Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan, with two of the state’s top elected officials falling on opposite sides of the debate.
The EPA is expected to released tougher standards for ozone emissions Thursday, and opinions in Colorado remain sharply divided.
The US Dept. of Labor has declared Halliburton owes millions in back wages to more than 1,000 employees.
The greater sage grouse is not heading to the Endangered Species List, for now. US Interior Secretary Sally Jewell made the long-awaited announcement Tuesday in Colorado, flanked by four state governors.