The systems brought part of the Petro Rabigh complex offline in a last-gasp effort to prevent a gas release and deadly explosion. But as safety devices took extraordinary steps, control room engineers working the weekend shift spotted nothing out of the ordinary, either on their computer screens or out on the plant floor.
Murray Energy Corp. CEO Bob Murray and Heath Lovell, a top spokesman for magnate Joe Craft's Alliance Resource Partners LP, were "VIP Arrivals" for one-night stays on June 20, 2018, according to a list obtained by The Washington Post.
In the winter, when the hunters come, she'd just as soon close the curtains to avoid a different scene: the routine slaughtering of hundreds of bison. It happens each year at Beattie Gulch, a narrow strip of unoccupied federal land next to the park's northern border, just a stone's throw from Oliver's house.
Democratic presidential hopeful Kirsten Gillibrand backs the Green New Deal, but the New York senator wasn't always so antagonistic to fossil fuels.
In the months leading up to Jay Inslee's March 1 announcement that he'll run for president, the Washington governor made it clear his priority was to make sure climate change plays a starring role in the 2020 presidential election.
DENVER — David Bernhardt grew up hiking, hunting, skiing and horseback riding on the federal lands surrounding Rifle, Colo., an oil shale boomtown that saw bleak times when energy markets collapsed.
Carol Browner has a fun new gig.
BURAS, La. — When wetlands in the Upper Midwest are drained for agriculture, Ryan Lambert's hunting and fishing lodge takes a beating — even though it's a thousand miles away in coastal Louisiana. "The farmers say draining doesn't affect anything because 'it's not connected.'" he says. "It's not connected? Shoot! Everything north has to come south. That's the way it works." Looming changes to federal Clean Water Act protections might mean more trouble for Lambert and other sportsmen.
MOHAVE COUNTY, Ariz. — Breakneck agricultural development by well-heeled out-of-staters has upended conservative orthodoxy in this parched rural county.
WILLISTON, N.D. — A decade into the American shale-drilling era, boomtowns, former boomtowns and would-be boomtowns across the country are looking for their own sense of balance, with varying results.
SPRINGDALE, Pa. — Black coal dust gathers near a spring close to Rachel Carson's childhood home. The fine particles from the Cheswick Generating Station blanket cars, tables and windows in this city of 3,350 people, where the dominant feature is a power plant.
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