BLOWOUT: Inside America's Energy Gamble
American oil will account for 80 percent of the growth in global supply over the next seven years. That’s bringing big profits to oil companies as well as lung-searing pollution to places where drilling has skyrocketed, while threatening to exacerbate climate change.
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BLOWOUT: Inside America's Energy Gamble
Part 1 of 7
Published — October 11, 2018
As oil and gas exports surge, West Texas becomes the world’s ‘extraction colony’
BLOWOUT: Inside America's Energy Gamble
Part 2 of 7
Published — October 16, 2018
How Washington unleashed fossil-fuel exports and sold out on climate
BLOWOUT: Inside America's Energy Gamble
Part 3 of 7
Published — November 13, 2018
Drilling overwhelms agency protecting America’s lands
The Bureau of Land Management is making it easier to produce oil and gas on federal acreage. In southeastern New Mexico, it can’t even keep up with what’s already happening.
BLOWOUT: Inside America's Energy Gamble
Part 4 of 7
Published — November 29, 2018
Surge of oil and gas flowing to Texas coastline triggers building boom, tensions
BLOWOUT: Inside America's Energy Gamble
Part 5 of 7
Published — December 12, 2018
When it comes to natural gas, the U.S. is ‘open for business’
The U.S. government has become a pitchman for natural gas exports. That could raise profits — and temperatures.
BLOWOUT: Inside America's Energy Gamble
Part 6 of 7
Published — December 21, 2018
Death in the oilfields
From 2008 through 2017, 1,566 workers perished trying to extract oil and gas in America. About as many U.S. troops died fighting in Afghanistan during that period.
BLOWOUT: Inside America's Energy Gamble
Part 7 of 7
Published — December 27, 2018
U.S. fossil fuel exports spur Asian building boom, climate worries
As American natural gas production soars, South Korea rushes to build tankers to move that energy to Asia’s top economies
