North Dakotans Reel From Low Oil and Ag Prices by Inside Energy

Coal Downturn Makes It Harder To Clean Up Its Dirty Past by Inside Energy

"Running on Empty:" North Dakota's Oilfield Slowdown in 5 Numbers and a Song by Inside Energy

Moratorium Latest Bad News For Coal States by Inside Energy

A blown out natural gas well in Los Angeles has been pouring methane into the air for over two months now. It’s estimated that each day the Aliso Canyon leak is adding about as much greenhouse gas to the atmosphere as four and a half million cars on the road. The spewing gas is sparking calls for a new watchdog system for methane.

No More Blackouts: How NY Is Protecting The Power Grid by Inside Energy

By some estimates, producing our food consumes about a fifth of the nation’s energy supply. But some farmers are trying to cut back on the coal and gas used to grow our food.

Harvest Public Media and Inside Energy are teaming up for Feasting on Fuel, a series looking at how energy is used in food production. Today, Harvest reporter Grant Gerlock looks at a couple ways farms are getting greener.

Wyoming gets nearly 90% of its electricity from coal-fired power plants. A series of new regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency requires those plants to install new pollution controls - its either install, or close down. Nearly half of the electricity currently generated by coal in Wyoming is now either in compliance with mercury rules, or racing towards a compliance deadline. It is an expensive job. For Inside Energy, Reid Frazier of the Allegheny Front takes us inside a plant being retrofitted in Pennsylvania.

2015 was a year marked by a dramatic reversal of fortune for the oil industry. Crude oil prices dropped down to a third of their 2014 highs, effectively pouring ice water on America’s shale revolution.To understand what many oil companies have been going through in the last year, and what's to come, we need to enter a dark forest filled with hedges, zombies and strippers.

This is a story about accounting for your money -- lots of money you may not even know you had. It’s buried on federal and tribal lands in the form of natural resources, in states like Wyoming and Colorado.