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Oklahoma

‘We’re Being Wrapped in Poison’: A Century of Oil and Gas Development Has Devastated the Ponca City Region of Northern Oklahoma

From abandoned wells to refineries, hydraulic fracturing and man-made earthquakes, the destruction has poisoned air, land and water. Now the Ponca Tribe is fighting back.

By Phil McKenna

Smoke from the Phillips 66 refinery in Ponca City billows a short distance from the Standing Bear Museum and Educational Center, where benzene continues to contaminate the groundwater. Oil rights were taken from the Ponca Tribe in north central Oklahoma and then exploited by the oil and gas industry with little thought given to environmental protection. Credit: Phil McKenna
Pawnee earthquake damage

Oklahoma’s Largest Quake Linked to Oil and Gas Industry Actions 3 Years Earlier

By Zahra Hirji

Two ranchers walk across parched dried soil in Culberson County, Texas.

Texas Heat Caused by Warming: Hansen

By Elizabeth Grossman, InsideClimate News

Rural Montana

Bad Faith in Negotiations over Oil Sands Pipe?

By Elizabeth McGowan

Landowners Still Holding Out Against Keystone XL

By Elizabeth McGowan

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