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Inside Energy was a public media collaboration, funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, that produced from 2014-2017. Our audio stories will help inform you of the tensions and tradeoffs in American energy issues. Don’t miss our podcast: http://insideenergy.org/podcast
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Living With Uncertainty- An Inside Energy Podcast Special
Is having oil and gas development nearby bad for your health? In this story, we’re going to dig into what is known and what is unknown about these dan...

Invisible Leaks: Where "Clean" Natural Gas Falls Short
A natural gas boom in the U.S. is changing the power sector in the country. It's credited with bringing down American carbon dioxide emissions more th...

Tax Reform's Impact On Western Energy
Tax reform is going to impact renewables, oil and gas, and energy overall in the western U.S. Now that the President has signed the final tax bill int...

2017 Continuing Coverage: Firestone Explosion
Four stories chronicling the growing conflict between oil and gas drilling and suburban development, in the aftermath of an April 2017 natural gas exp...

Clean Coal: Folly or the Future?
President Donald Trump has used the term “clean coal” a lot lately, but what is clean coal? Well, it can mean a lot of different things, depending who...

Are Cities Leading The Way On Climate?
An increasing number of cities are claiming they will go it alone to meet the emission reduction targets of the Paris Climate Agreement. This comes in...

Trump Admin To Shrink Utah Monuments
President Trump is set to announce a plan to shrink the boundaries of two national monuments in Utah: Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears Nationa...

Nervous About Electric Vehicle Road Trips? You’re Not Alone
The American West is known for its wide open spaces.
That can make for some pretty epic road trips -- unless you have an electric vehicle...

Energy Dominance A Theme In D.C.
It’s been a busy week for lawmakers in the nation’s capital pushing their bills that fall in line with the Trump Administration’s energy dominance age...

Wyoming Nears Finish Line in Clean Coal Project
Wyoming’s biggest bet on clean coal is almost finished. The Integrated Test Center outside Gillette aims to host researchers who are finding ways to t...

In Threatened Bird's Uncertain Fate, Some See An Opportunity
The Department of Interior officially re-opened the 2015 sage grouse management plans last month. They took over a decade of compromise and negotiatio...

Living With Oil & Gas- An Inside Energy Podcast Special
Inside Energy’s Leigh Paterson reports on the struggle between two priorities in Colorado: energy development and housing development. She takes us t...

The Bakken Gears Up For Its Second Decade
The Bakken Gears Up For Its Second Decade by Inside Energy

Cowboys, Badlands and the Meaning of Conservation - An Inside Energy Special
If Ryan Zinke is modeling himself after the Conservationist President, Teddy Roosevelt, then why is he making headlines for rolling back land protecti...

Oil Patch Growth Creates A Funding Nightmare
Oil Patch Growth Creates A Funding Nightmare by Inside Energy

A Potential Leader in Wind, Wyoming Holds Back
Wyoming has the sixth highest wind capacity potential in the country, but it sits at 15th in actual production. With new transmission lines and soon-t...

Oil & Gas Dollars Pour Into Broomfield Ballot Fight
The oil & gas industry is pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars into local politics in a Denver suburb, fighting a measure that could give the town...

The Teddy Roosevelt Legacy At Ryan Zinke's Interior Department
The Department of the Interior is outlining potential steps aimed at increasing energy production on federal lands.
Interior Secretary, Ryan Zi...

Big Solar Projects Fear Looming Tariff
Big Solar Projects Fear Looming Tariff by Inside Energy

Another Court Agrees, Coal Companies Must Consider Climate Change
When a coal company wants to dig on federal land, the Bureau of Land Management figures out an environmental impact statement for them. They look at h...

Absent CPP, CO Plans To Keep Cutting Carbon
Today, the Trump Administration kicked off the formal process of repealing an Obama-era rule called the Clean Power Plan. But many in Colorado think t...

Wyoming and Japan's Carbon Connection
Wyoming and the country of Japan are working out a relationship over coal. Wyoming wants to export that coal, and Japan wants to buy it. Both want to...

Former EPA Admin Gina McCarthy Reacts To Changes In New Administration
Since January, President Trump has ordered systematic rollbacks of Obama-era environmental regulations. He’s voiced an intent to focus on energy devel...

Rural Wyoming Warms To Wind
Over eighty percent of new wind power last year went up in states that voted for President Donald Trump. It may sound strange when Trump’s aim is to b...

Sage Grouse Deja Vu
Future development on vast swaths of western land is uncertain now that sage grouse is back on the agenda. The well-being of this chicken-like bird wa...

Hurricane's Impact On Oil Raising Concerns From Wellhead To Gas Pump
Hurricane's Impact On Oil Raising Concerns From Wellhead To Gas Pump by Inside Energy

Uravan: The Uranium Town That Was
Superfund cleanups are a priority for Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
He wants to cut through re...

Busted uranium market gears up for potential boom
The U.S. used to be the world’s number one uranium producer, and most of it came from Wyoming. But since the 1980s, production has fallen off a cliff....

How Much Oil Does North Dakota Have?
How Much Oil Does North Dakota Have? by Inside Energy

Lightning And Oil Country: A Volatile Mix
Lightning And Oil Country: A Volatile Mix by Inside Energy

Part 2- When Oil & Gas Moves In
People and oil and gas development don’t always make good neighbors. This is especially true in northern Colorado where tensions among residents, ener...

Part 1- When Oil & Gas Moves In
Colorado’s governor is stepping up regulations on the state’s oil and gas industry. Tuesday’s announcement follows a home explosion in April that kill...

West Virginia Wants Coal Hard Cash
Wyoming's Republican politicians have come out swinging against a proposal from West Virginia for a federal subsidy for Appalachian coal. Representati...

Solar Trade War: Who Wins?
The U.S. solar industry is booming. Twice as much solar was installed last year as in 2015. But some say not everyone has reaped the benefits. Earlier...

Dakota Access Pipeline Upends Oil Transport
Dakota Access Pipeline Upends Oil Transport by Inside Energy

Coal Under Trump: One Miner's Perspective
President Trump idealizes a traditional view of American life, an America based on industry and lifting up the image of the blue collar working man.


What a West Coast Gas Terminal Could Mean for the Rockies
There is a lot of natural gas locked underground in Western Colorado, Wyoming and Utah.
Trouble is, it can be tough to get that gas to ma...

Oil Exports Bring Boom Times To Texas Port
Oil Exports Bring Boom Times To Texas Port by Inside Energy

A Billion Barrel A Year Problem
Central Oklahoma is still feeling aftershocks from a 4.2-magnitude quake that struck earlier this week. A key part in solving the earthquake crisis is...