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Buried Secrets: natural gas contaminating water supplies?
ProPublica | Nov. 13, 2008: Natural gas drilling endangering water supplies?Read more: Buried Secrets: natural gas contaminating water supplies?
Wyoming air is getting mighty thick
Denver Post | May 4, 2008 : By Dwayne Meadows. "I have lived in Wyoming for 27 of my 34 years, and during that time I've watched air quality decrease in other places — like Denver. But I never expected to hear air- quality alerts in Sublette County, where hardly anybody lives."
EPA Sets New Air Quality Standards in Wyoming’s Pinedale Region
New West | March 13, 2008 : Wyoming’s natural gas-rich Pinedale region faces tightening air quality regulations, the EPA announced Wednesday. The new EPA regulations would cut the area’s allowable amount of ozone by six percent.
Read more: EPA Sets New Air Quality Standards in Wyoming’s Pinedale Region
EPA ozone warnings point to gas fields
Jackson Hole, Wyo. | March 12, 2008 : Two ozone warnings early this week have oil and gas industry officials on the defensive about a plan to add thousands more wells to the Pinedale Anticline.
Governor Advocates State/County Cooperation in Study of Sublette County Air Quality
Cheyenne, Wyo. | April 10, 2008 : Calling the presence of ozone in the western Wyoming air a “significant concern,” today Gov. Dave Freudenthal responded to a citizen petition requesting that a health assessment be performed in Sublette County.
Read more: Governor Advocates State/County Cooperation in Study of Sublette County Air Quality
Boom and doom
The Economist | May 31, 2007: Boom and doom: gas has brought riches, and trouble
End of the Road?
Smithsonian | January 2007: Natural gas development threatens to block the ancient migration of pronghorn that travel the longest terrestrial pathway in the Western hemisphere outside of Alaska.Page 8 of 9
