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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 potential defaults on several loans.
Oil and gas jobs are down nationwide, but not every energy state has been equally affected.
Wyoming is still one of the whitest states in the country, but in the last few years the black population there has more than doubled. Inside Energy’s Leigh Paterson reports.
Job seekers still flock to Williston, North Dakota seeking easy money in the Bakken oilfield. Falling oil prices have made that dream a little harder to attain.
Low oil prices gave truck driver Apryl Boyce a chance to re-think why she came to the Bakken oilfield. And then she decided to leave.
