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Posted on September 23, 2020December 21, 2020

Working to Prove Accountability: A Hydrogeologist’s Perspective on the Pavillion Water Crisis

Mike Wireman, a hydrogeologist, has spent the last five years trying to understand what is causing the Pavillion water crisis in relation to oil and gas development.

Posted on June 26, 2020July 15, 2020

Colorado Community Members use their Voices to Protect the Health and Safety of their Community

Battlement Mesa Prepares for a Continued Fight for Safer Drilling Practices When Bonnie Smeltzer moved to Battlement Mesa in 2002 at the age of 74,…

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Posted on May 12, 2020June 18, 2020

Pavillion Community Still Waiting on a Solution for Clean Drinking Water

Residents impacted by leaking wells look to Encana and the state of Wyoming for a solution. Evelyn stood on her deck overlooking a patchwork of…

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residents on the front lines of oil and gas
Posted on March 10, 2020April 16, 2020

Bonding Crisis Looms in Colorado as Gas Prices Tip Into the Red

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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Posted on December 12, 2019January 30, 2020

Fighting for Clean Air in North Dakota

Joletta Bird Bear and Fort Berthold POWER Still Have a Long Way to Go to Get Clean Air on the Reservation. Flares danced all the…

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Posted on December 9, 2019January 30, 2020

Dawn Stein – Even Being Deaf Doesn’t Block Out the Noise of Drilling

Dawn Stein stood in her front yard, shaded by a canopy of rustling, century-old cottonwood trees. A well-manicured lawn surrounded her tidy white house. On…

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