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  • "Refracking." Guernsey County, OH.

How Some Communities are Monitoring Their Own Air Quality

In Ohio, local advocacy groups are using low-cost sensors to gather information.

Diana Kruzman2022-09-02T16:25:32-04:00July 29, 2022|
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  • Pithole, Pennsylvania, 1895

Uncovering America’s First Oil Landscape

In Pennsylvania’s Oil Creek Valley, the messy legacy of the country’s first petroleum boom.

Jake Maynard2022-09-07T16:39:42-04:00June 7, 2022|
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  • A delivery truck and a port

America’s Largest Inland Port is Running Out of Water

The proposed solution — a thirty-one-mile-long pipeline draining Lake Michigan — is dividing residents of Joliet, Illinois.

Adam Mahoney2022-03-10T15:05:33-05:00February 24, 2022|
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  • Rendleman - Illinois Coal 3

Rust Belt Labor: A Reading List

Stories of Rust Belt workers--their lives, histories, memories, and resistance.

Raechel Anne Jolie2021-10-01T11:41:49-04:00September 3, 2021|
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  • Njie - Oil Boom Collage

The Long Tail of Indiana’s Oil and Gas Boom

The state’s early industry remade more than the landscape.

Ava Tomasula y Garcia2021-09-21T13:43:49-04:00May 28, 2021|
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  • Tarbell - Library of Congress

Ida Tarbell: Reporting the Oil Region

An excerpt from "Citizen Reporters."

Stephanie Gorton2020-03-13T11:20:25-04:00March 3, 2020|
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  • Riesterer - Kalamazoo 4

The Enduring Legacy of the 2010 Kalamazoo River Oil Spill

Nearly a decade after one of the largest inland oil spills in U.S. history, the landscape has changed.

Joseph Riesterer2019-07-30T10:20:20-04:00July 12, 2019|
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  • Schnurr - Whiting Refinery Coker

Northwest Indiana’s Slow Burn

Water, oil, and industrial volcanoes in Indiana's Calumet region, along the shore of Lake Michigan.

Ava Tomasula y Garcia2019-02-12T10:42:16-05:00January 22, 2019|
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  • Enbridge Mainline Lakehead Map

The Oil Pipelines Putting the Great Lakes at Risk

Two hundred feet below the surface of the Straits of Mackinac, oil is moving through the Great Lakes.

Ryan Schnurr2021-08-19T10:15:05-04:00July 28, 2017|
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