Residents of Battlement Mesa and Rifle, Colorado, are on the verge of seeing gas companies abandoning their wells and leaving taxpayers to clean up the…
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Thirty years after faulty gas wells and unlined holding ponds began contaminating groundwater, residents of Pavillion, Wyoming, still can't drink the water. Sue Spencer, a…
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"My name is Kristin Winn. I live in Grand Junction Colorado. I have lived here for about 22 years. I grew up in Chicago where…
I’m Wayne Lax from, originally, Detroit, Michigan. We moved to Wyoming in 1999 and have been here ever since. We had no knowledge or background…
Angie: "My name is Angie McGinnis I'm an organic vegetable farmer. My farm is located in Mandan North Dakota and I'm originally from Bismarck…
"My name is Lowell Lewis, I'm going to be 70 this year. My wife, son and I moved here from Connecticut in 1985, and we've…
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