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How an international trade deal will impact Western states
The Trans-Pacific Partnership could mean more beef imports and natural gas exports.
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Interior considers hike in oil and gas royalty rates
Industry opposes reforms at a time when low oil prices deter drilling.
Posted inApril 10, 2015: Strangers in a Strange Land
International tourists in Western states, by the numbers
Where they’re from, where they go and where they spend their money.
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As drought pervades, can markets make us water-wiser?
Proponents say market tools can better move water where it’s needed.
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Rural counties to lose the most from defunded lands programs
What happens to local budgets when Congress stops these federal payments.
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Wyoming’s coal industry faces uncertain future
New study examines threats to state’s coal-dependent economy.
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Senior editor Jonathan Thompson talks lessons from Farmington’s bust with KDNK
The energy extraction-dependent New Mexico town has ridden out a couple ups and downs.
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Dispatch from a gas patch shopping trip
Reporters Notebook from New Mexico’s San Juan Basin.
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How ‘amenity migrants’ push out locals
Communities once sustained by local labor now rely on stock market dividends.
Posted inMarch 16, 2015: Wild Ride
Lessons from boom and bust in New Mexico
What we can learn from the oil and gas roller coaster ride in Farmington and beyond.
Posted inMarch 16, 2015: Wild Ride
An oil well, by the numbers
A deep dive into drilling, operating and producing.
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Don’t expect oil prices to rebound anytime soon
Global forces conspire to keep energy prices low, for better and worse.
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USDA announces new grants to reduce ‘grain drain’
With the average age of farmers still rising, grants to help out newbies don’t get to the root of the problem.
Posted inFebruary 16, 2015: Chainsaw Diplomacy
Statistical realism
David Hughes crunches unpopular numbers for the shale oil boom.
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After a string of accidents, refinery workers strike for safety
Federal and state investigations have found lax safety practices at oil refineries going back a decade.
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Feds demand payback for misused stimulus funds
Millions of dollars for carbon sequestration that apparently never happened.
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The increasingly unequal West
Rich get richer while everyone else wallows in a region once known to be economically egalitarian.