In a harried attempt to keep up with the Trump administration’s assault on public lands, I’ve put out a flurry … More
Tag: Energy
Methane Madness: Dataviz of natural gas pipeline incidents
I promised that I was working on a data visualization of natural gas pipeline breaches, and after crunching a bunch … More
On oil, milkshakes, movies, Albert B. Fall and Ryan Zinke
Surely the most famous monologue in Let There Be Blood, the 2007 Paul Thomas Anderson film about a California oil … More
The West’s juice generators, big and small
I’m working on something about the electrical grid in the West, and found this massive trove of data from the … More
How oil and greed led to the 1923 centralization of Navajo government
In 1920, the San Juan Basin of northwest New Mexico and southwest Colorado teetered on the line between being an … More
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