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North Dakota's Landscape Energized [Photos]
What does oil independence look like? Those living and working in North Dakota's booming Bakken oil field are seeing firsthand
What does oil independence look like? Those living and working in North Dakota's booming Bakken oil field are seeing firsthand
No other coal deposit on the planet is so big, so close to the surface and so cheap to mine as the rich seams in eastern Wyoming and southern Montana. And that's made the Powder River Basin the locus of a national debate on how we develop fossil fuel reserves...
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