Author: Matt Brown
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Fires charring U.S. West range set up ranchers for hardship
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LAME DEER, Mont. • Wildfires tearing through eastern Montana and elsewhere in the U.S. West are devouring vast areas of rangeland that cattle ranchers depend upon, setting the stage for a potential shortage of livestock forage as the hot, dry summer grinds on. On the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, firefighters and local authorities scrambled to…
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Boom in Native American oil complicates Biden climate push
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NEW TOWN, N.D. • On oil well pads carved from the wheat fields around Lake Sakakawea, hundreds of pump jacks slowly bob to extract 100 million barrels of crude annually from a reservation shared by three Native American tribes. About half their 16,000 members live on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation atop one of the…
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Oil industry group backs federal price on carbon
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The oil and gas industry’s top lobbying group on Thursday endorsed a federal price on carbon dioxide emissions that contribute to global warming, a reversal of longstanding policy that comes as the Biden administration has pledged dramatic steps to address climate change. The American Petroleum Institute, whose members include ExxonMobil, Chevron and…