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Transfer of Power: Life After Coal

December 13, 2024
For more than a century, coal powered much of the U.S. Now it's on its way out. That means all across the country, the communities that were built...
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Saudi America

October 18, 2018
Production of oil and gas in the U.S. has surged to levels unthinkable a decade ago due to the revolution in hydraulic fracturing, which has...
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Fracking Boom

April 1, 2014
America is in the midst of a fracking boom. Most new oil and gas wells in this country are drilled using hyrdraulic fracturing, the injection of a...
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Fracked State

November 5, 2013
"We have been fracking in California for 60 years and we have done it safely," according to Paul Deiro, an energy lobbyist with KP Public Affairs....
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Fracking News

July 19, 2013
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is “the most profound [energy] revolution that we’ve had in decades,” said San Francisco Chronicle...