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Thousands Laid Off In Oil Price Fall
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The world’s largest oilfield services provider plans to lay off 9,000 workers. They are not the only company cutting back.
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As Oil Prices Fall, Energy States Suffer
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A new study ranks states whose economies will be hardest hit by falling oil prices. North Dakota tops the list.
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Wyoming Coal Versus The EPA
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One of the GOP’s top priorities for 2015 is dismantling the EPA’s Clean Power Plan. Leigh Paterson reports on what’s at stake for American coal.
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How A Service Station In A Wyoming Boomtown Learned To Live With(out) The Energy Industry
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Verne Waldner bought the Conoco Service Station in Wamsutter Wyoming back in 1973. There wasn’t much to the town then, and there still isn’t. Wamsutter sits off Interstate 80 and has a current population of just under 500. But Verne says that isolation has made his station an essential outpost for drivers passing through for decades.
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Low-Carbon Equals Low-Pollution
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It’s not exactly news that many scientists agree that switching to low-carbon technologies to produce energy would help reduce pollution. But as we consider these technologies, questions arise regarding the cost of building new plants, the materials necessary and whether they would cause other types of pollution. A study, released this week in the Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences journal, set out to answer these questions and arrived at a simple conclusion: taking all these factors into consideration, low-carbon technologies are still the answer to a greener planet.
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Will Natural Gas Save The Planet? New Study Says No
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Replacing coal with natural gas to produce electricity wouldn’t significantly reduce carbon emissions, according to a study released today by University of California Irvine in conjunction with Net Zero and Stanford University.
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Left Behind By The Boom: A Look At Alaska
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Wyoming Public Media’s Stephanie Joyce interviews Alexandra Gutierrez of Alaska Public Radio on Alaska’s diminished role in America’s energy boom and what it means for the state.
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Inside The Boom: Finding The Good Life In North Dakota
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Inside Energy reporter Emily Guerin just moved to North Dakota to cover the energy industry and its impacts on that state. Her “Inside The Boom” blog will be an occasional web feature at insideenergy.org.
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Visualizing Wyoming And North Dakota’s Emissions-Intensive Economies
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As states ready for the Obama Administration to release new carbon emissions regulations next week, a major question looms: What’s the most sensible way to measure and compare greenhouse gas production? Two states dwarf all others when it comes to sheer amount of carbon dioxide released: Texas and California. Texas is such a carbon giant that it accounts for 12% of U.S. emissions and produces nearly twice as much as the next closest state, California. This graph shows 2011 carbon dioxide emissions based on Energy Information Administration (EIA) data:
But there’s more than one way to slice and dice emissions data. Looking at carbon dioxide produced per dollar earned by industry, the story changes: Wyoming tops all states in carbon emitted per dollar earned, followed by West Virginia and North Dakota.
