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In this light hearted segment, Stephen Hightower II, Chief Operating Officer for Hightowers Petroleum Company, a $450+ million dollar petroleum company, talks about what is in his Bug Out Bag. Join Erin Satzger and Stephen Hightower II as they discuss the importance of giving back and making a positive impact. With insightful interviews and thoughtful commentary, "What Gives" is the perfect podcast for anyone who wants to learn more about how business and philanthropy can work together to create a better future for all. Listen now to discover how you can make a difference in your own community.

If you are left all alone in a room by yourself, do you like the person you are sitting with? Let's explore this question on the Journey to Self-Love and let's be honest with the answer. Does your inside energy match what's on the outside, or do you spend your precious time and energy trying to camouflage the truth? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sharondmeadows/support

Ambassador John Emerson joins American Ambassadors Live! host, Ambassador Jim Rosapepe, to discuss Germany's perspective regarding the conflict in Ukraine, the energy challenges Germany faces, the impact of internal politics, and the Europe/China relationship. Ambassador John Emerson describes Germany and Russia's relationship over the past 40-50 years as being schizophrenic. He goes on to describe the reasons why including "...an admiration for the Russian spirit...to endure suffering for a long period of time." Ambassador Emerson is the former U.S. Ambassador to Germany (2013-2017). He currently serves as Chairman for the American Council on Germany and is the Vice Chairman for Capital Group International. He serves on the boards of the Pacific Council on International Policy and the German Marshal Fund. He is a long serving member on the Council on Foreign Relations. 

In this episode, Danny shares the always important message that health always comes first. Entrepreneurs forget, because there's something inside of them that causes them to only think about money. What often happens is that desire and pride cause a negative approach to life, which leads to getting caught up in materialism. When you heal inside of what caused the shame and the guilt, you get to approach life from the perspective of love, longevity, and self-love. You get to live it on your terms. Join Us At Awaken, Dec 1-3 – https://www.dannymorel.com/awaken (https://www.dannymorel.com/awaken) Apply For Danny's Inner Circle – https://www.dannymorel.com/innercircle-apply (https://www.dannymorel.com/innercircle-apply) Connect with Danny: Website | https://www.dannymorel.com/ (https://www.dannymorel.com/) Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/dannymorel/ (https://www.instagram.com/dannymorel/ ) LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/dannymorel/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dannymorel/ ) Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/Danny.Morel.Page (https://www.facebook.com/Danny.Morel.Page)

In this episode, Danny shares the always important message that health always comes first. Entrepreneurs forget, because there's something inside of them that causes them to only think about money. What often happens is that desire and pride cause a negative approach to life, which leads to getting caught up in materialism. When you heal inside of what caused the shame and the guilt, you get to approach life from the perspective of love, longevity, and self-love. You get to live it on your terms. Danny's Website – https://www.dannymorel.com/ (https://www.dannymorel.com/ ) Danny's LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/dannymorel/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dannymorel/ ) Danny's Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/dannymorel77 (https://www.facebook.com/dannymorel77 ) Danny's Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/dannymorel/ (https://www.instagram.com/dannymorel/ ) Awaken Your Highest Self – https://www.awakenyourhighestself.com/ (https://www.awakenyourhighestself.com/ )

SUMMARY KEYWORDSconsciousness, mania, bipolar, life, feel, state, brain, part, energy, universe, manic, people, glial cells, neurons, learning, create, prefrontal cortex, happening, exercises, onenessI think part of it is getting back to focusing on the positive aspects, I've been focusing on the negative because I work in mental health, and there's a lot of negative stuff going on. I think I could talk about that for years. And there's positive stuff too, of course. But I feel like I want to focus on the gifts and and one of the gifts is this hyper learning, and what does this hyper learning want to learn? And move towards? And is there a sustainable way to be in that consciousness. And I actually feel like manic consciousness is the new consciousness. It's playful, it's joyous. And if you look at the scale of consciousness by Dr. David Hawkins, those are the higher states of consciousness, and our brain goes there. But it's difficult to actually stay there. Because Ken Wilber talks about how states are temporary. And you can, you can by states of consciousness, you can be in a state a high state just by taking some kind of illicit drug. Whereas the stages are actually earned. So how do we embody our mania and harvest our mania and move towards practicing it to actually get to the stage of joy and playfulness and love, not just having that as a state? The state, we get a lot of times just organically through our own endogenous bio molecules, it's all we can create them ourselves. And it's a matter of I think it's a matter of how do we design our life? That is that joyful? that we're creating those biomolecules endogenously automatically. And that's part of manic lifestyle design. How do we design our life? Because when we're in that consciousness, we act in different ways. We're random or spontaneous, we're creative, we're playful, how do we design our life to just be that way. And then we're, we're almost earning that state, by creating our life in that way. And by creator creating our life in that way, we're actually in alignment with the universe and what the universe would want for us. The universe doesn't want us to be habitual, programmed, robotic drums. It wants us to be one with life. And I was listening to a talk by Eckhart totally and somebody asked, What's the significance or what's the point of mental illness or something and, and he sort of, was beating around the bush for a while. And then he actually talked about it in terms of suffering, because his things about how suffering leads to awakening, or it can. And then something he did talk about, was that it's all one life, it's all one consciousness. It's not separate, like, it's not my life and your life, it's just life. So I liked that reminder of, of the whole oneness thing, it's life. And I think that's what actually happens when we go into manic consciousness is we're just one with life. Like, that's actually the energy of life. That's the energy that feeds the plants. That's the energy that feeds all creatures on earth. But we've sort of separated ourselves from that life energy by by thinking. And I think in the end, we all get returned to that life energy, because it is just one life. It's like, I'm life and somebody else's life, and we're interacting, well, are we interacting based on the principles of life? Are we interacting based on these rules of thought that we've created with our dividing minds to keep ourselves separate? And I was thinking about how lately I've been struggling with some so called anxiety. And I haven't really created any stories in my mind about it. So I felt it mostly as pain in my body. And then sometimes I'll have a little bit of a story come up as to what it could be related to, and it could be something from years ago or now or, or whenever. And what I'm thinking though, is usually I don't feel this kind of anxiety. I go into a state of terror pretty quickly and then I dissociate and then I end up in the psych ward. And it's a pretty quick process of like a week or a few days. But it seems like instead I've been feeling physical pain or sort of emotional pain. In that little bit of a story comes up, I have a sense of when that is from. So I'm feeling the Forex sensation and feeling when it's from instead of being in terror, quickly dissociating, and having no sense of the time, and where things are coming from, it just feels like terror. And, and that means that things are coming to an end for me right now. So it feels like it's drawn out. So by not maybe tumbling down into the very low states of consciousness so quickly, maybe in so low states, but they're, they're painful, but they're manageable, as opposed to, maybe that's part of the things, the lower states are so painful, that my consciousness can't manage it. So then I dissociate from myself, and I can't, I can't remain myself. And also to, I don't take any extra medication for these pains are these feelings of anxiety, whereas if I go into those extremes, dates, and I dissociate, I end up in the psych ward on extra medication. So I'd rather not take the extra medication and just feel it. I might have already talked about that stuff, because I got lost on my list here. I was thinking about the evolution of consciousness, and why would we go backwards in consciousness? Why would we go down the scale of consciousness, if generally, in life, our body grows bigger, and we don't grow smaller. And, and as we mature, emotionally, usually just sort of gets a little bit more evolved over time. Usually, or, or learning we learn more and more, and that sort of increases our capacity to learn. But it seems like consciousness, it doesn't happen that way. So I could get to a high level of consciousness and then go back down. And I'm wondering if it's sort of because that consciousness isn't ours, it's not personal. It's not my consciousness, that sort of consciousness being expressed through me. So consciousness can change its expression through me depending on how things go. And I almost think it's sort of like breathing. Like we breathe in, we breathe out. And the same with consciousness, we can we go up and down consciousness, especially for people who are in bipolar And in a way, people who are in consciousness of bipolar, sort of more of a barometer of the planet, because we can go up and down consciousness so readily, and it's showing that we're not actually we're not actually our personalities, we are consciousness and are going up and down, and being breathed by consciousness in a way. And I think part of it too, is that when we're caught in that habitual lifestyle, and then consciousness comes in as bipolar and starts breathing us. We're trying to find where we want to actually settle into a different lifestyle, not in that habitual lifestyle. So normally recoveries, to get us back into some kind of habit. Similar to our past habits, whereas this energy is wanting us to live in a completely different way. Living in a life that is beyond habit, because this consciousness is going to come in and disrupt whatever it is we're trying to habitually do. So that would be like trying to climb a wave versus actually just surfing a wave. And so I think part of it is getting with that wave. And just as far out in the beginning of a wave, it's like this huge wave as it gets closer to the shore. It's a very light wave. So I think even though it starts, we're breathing up like this sort of like big waves. Eventually, as it gets to the shore, we probably will even out but that's as long as we're actually going with the wave like where is this wave trying to take us? I think is trying to wave us out of our personality for one. And that's another thing what I was watching that video about learning or neuroplasticity. manic consciousness definitely wants to learn. And it definitely wants to be creative. And not just creative in one little aspect. It wants to be creative in all of life. So how can one make every moment creative act? And since it is a learning process, and it sort of wants this overstimulation, well what kind of overstimulation because the manic energy makes everything overstimulating. And I think part of it has to do with just harvesting mania, going back to that experience, and, and trying to recall, and remember, the rules, the unseen rules, the unwritten rules, it's sort of like giving us a map to this game, seeing how it really works. And then coming back, if we could actually harness that. That might be really powerful, because most people think it works in this linear, logical reductionist way. But I think it works in a different way. And if I think about it, we're in sort of the Age of Reason, and, and Shawn Blackwell talks about spiral dynamics, and the levels of evolution of a worldview and how there's the modern postmodern. And then I think he calls the last one the power of now. way. And the power of now level, he talks about how people will be at this high level of consciousness, but they see there's a place for all levels of consciousness. It's it's not just about trying to get everyone to be this higher level of consciousness, but honoring all levels. And I feel like for example, I'm a vegetarian. But I'm not the kind of vegetarian that feels like everybody should be a vegetarian. I had, if somebody else wants to eat meat, that's whatever. So to me, that would be kind of like a power of now. level of consciousness, because I'm not trying to push my ways on other people. That doesn't help. If other people want to become vegetarian one day cool. I've been vegan and then not vegan. I've been, I've been vegan and then vegetarian. And, and maybe one day, I'll eat meat for some reason, I can't imagine that I will. But I can't say for sure that I want. And part of that level two would be seeing that the mental health paradigm has its place as well. I don't feel like I want to work in it for very much longer but but it does have its place it does help some people it has helped me doesn't mean that I don't want to transcend it because I do want to transcend it. And I think part of transcending it is actually getting with learning what this energy wants me to learn, and stepping into that it's wanting brains to take a certain other function and and when I think about that, when I get back to thinking about that, I think about Dr. David Hawkins scale of consciousness and how after the level of reason, is actually the level of I think it's love or joy. It could be love and then joy, or just love and enjoy, but I actually feel like when I was in mania, I was in the level of joy, because it actually talks about the sort of oneness of consciousness and how I think actually that level of life is love and joy and there's oneness, like, everything just feels like that joy, every person one meets feels like that joy and one can almost experience that person in that level of joy. And that could be the trouble is that being in that level of consciousness, it's like being in oneness and bringing everyone up to that. But it can only last for so long, because that's not actually the collective resonance of how how life is. So then one sort of gets shot in the other direction in order to compensate. And I think it's not that one can't get back, I think one can get back there. But it's a matter again, of earning it through embodied mania, earning those stages versus waiting for the states to come. Because the states aren't earned. And, and I think the way one earns it is actually earning it, neuro plastically, neurologically, from epigenetics to DNA to glial cells to neurons to, to everything, it has to be really embedded in the neurophysiology. And if you can imagine that, if a person is just a producer, and creator of joy, and just joyful, joyful, joyful, that whole body's going to vibrate with that. But if one gets into that state of joy through mania, and has never been there before, it only makes sense that it's not going to last forever. And sort of it's sort of like lays the foundation of, of some of the neural pathways, but we have to actively build on those neural pathways. And that could be the learning. It's the mania is the learning of the universe that gives us that blueprint. And then it says, Hey, now, now, what are you going to do with this blueprint, and most of us have our, our blueprint crumpled up and thrown away, and, and our brains and our neural pathways medicated in preventing that from happening again. But I think it's important to actually embody one's mania. And I think that's why also altruism as, as part of the healing process is very important. I talked about that paper by Dr. Roger Walsh that says, services need to be redesigned to have altruism, one of the first steps like even when a person is still suffering to help other people. And I think that's part of the magic consciousness, lifestyle. Design is just going out and being randomly helpful and kind. And if I, if I wonder about if I curious about all I have to do is just remember how I was in that state? And why am I not being that way? now. I think going backwards in consciousness is actually a release in entropy in a way. That's like information is released. Whereas in higher states of consciousness, we're able to sort of integrate everything, it's it's sort of everything is one, it's made part of us as we go. Whereas when we come back down, we see ourselves again, as separate and see all this information. And that extra information coming out could actually be part of some of the hallucinations and the delusions and the fear, because we're sort of withdrawn from that state of oneness. And now, from that state of one, there's the many and there's more information coming out. And I think that's part of what's important with coming down to those lower states of consciousness is that it's not really meant as a punishment or anything, but it's meant to show us what it is that we're here to work for, which is to eliminate and alleviate a lot of that suffering that we have to experience within our consciousness because a lot of it that we experienced within our consciousness is not even our own suffering. It's all this extra suffering where they where the heck did this come from? This is so extreme. Well, somebody out there is feeling them. So, again, it's like our own internal compass. It's not to me about recovering one's own personal endeavor. You're all little life. In bipolar we go from feeling oneness, to separateness, to oneness to separateness. Well, how do we feel more of that oneness? How do we create more of that oneness? How do we be that oneness for other people. So we're used to having this consistent personality, but consciousness is actually an oscillation. It's an up and down, because it's just one consciousness. It's not every person has their own consciousness. It's impersonal. And the ego makes things personal. And that's why consciousness comes in and breaks up the ego, and shows us that life isn't personal. It can be very joyous when we don't make it such a personal thing. Earlier today, before I watched that TED talk about neuroplasticity, the woman who healed a major deficit in her brain that she was told she would have for life. I wrote that I really want to help people get their 25 years back, and not just get 25 years back, but see that they have gifts, and that this process is evolutionary, and it's non personal. And we actually have a huge responsibility to, to come together as a neuro tribe to actually help the world, we actually need to help people who think they need to help us. So it's not necessarily about recovering from having a mental illness it's be it's, it's recovering from being labeled as defective. Because just as this woman was able to solve her problem in her brain by just doing a couple of exercises, we might be able to solve our suppose of brain problems by doing a couple of exercises, and I think some of them are random acts of kindness and spontaneous social behaviors, and, and a lot of the things that we're actually doing in mania, but actually doing those consciously with our own will, without the extra energy and help from the universe and not waiting for the universe, to kick us in the butt. Part of what I want to do has something to do with bipolar, Siena's limitation, it's seen as defective. And, and I feel like there's just sort of a missing piece of the puzzle that if we knew it would actually be seen as, as desirable. Just like this lady who was able to do certain exercises in terms of some kind of activity she designed to get her brain to sort of spark on what is it that would make the bipolar brain spark on and actually find some kind of harmony with this world. Because usually, when I've had a crisis of some kind, I'm actually close to thriving. And that could be part of it actually is getting to the upper limits of consciousness. Consciousness throws me back into the mud to say, Oh, you have a lot more to learn. And then I think, well, what would it want me to learn? Seems that wants me to learn about human suffering. And this woman, she changed her brain by doing some kind of exercises that she designed to help that area of her brain. And if a woman can do that, of course, the universe can come in and change our brains with the energy of the universe. If a human can just sit down and go to through through and then then you're, over time change their brain while the universe can come and go and change the brain to and I actually feel like bipolar and these other things that happen to people is actually new cognition. So they talk about cognition and pre cognition. I think this is actually new cognition. This is consciousness evolution. And it's a type of processing we don't fully understand. And I watched another talk this man was so Talking about how the brain is 10% neurons and 90% glial cells, and how the glial cells are much more important than then is ever said or thought. And I actually think that they talk about how flow was transient hypofrontality, the prefrontal cortex turns off, and then all of a sudden, we're more in the present moment, and all these great things, well, it could be shifting more to the glial cells, maybe neurons are actually more like scar tissue than actual, you know, maybe, maybe glial cells, or actually being one with life. It's, it's a mirror of exactly what's out there. And being one with that in the moment, whereas the neurons are thinking about stuff. And I think that the universe wanted us to create all of these structures we have now, but now it's like, Okay, it's time for the prefrontal cortex to shut down, we've created enough to fast, and it's time for it to shut down, and it's shutting it down in a lot of brains, and we're switching to these glial cell processes. And then, and then the brains that are neuron dominant are actually thinking that this is pathology, this happening. But it's actually I think, evolutionary because we don't really need to be abstracting about reality as much now as actually just being one with reality and what we've created and actually enjoying it and being joyful. And I think that's partly what happens in in bipolar is that there's that there's a hypofrontality, that prefrontal cortex abstracting about stuff shuts down, and one is just one with the creative process and being creative, for no particular reason except to be joyous and celebrate. So it's kind of like this time now to sort of enjoy the fruits of the labors of humanity and all the generations before us, and actually slow down, but, but our brains are so programmed into that progress, progress, progress, that we don't really actually enjoy the progress that we've made. And I think that's why the universe is shutting down the prefrontal cortex and, and starting to create different brains. And that's the thing that is consciousness that directs all of this. We can go well, there's DNA, this and DNA that Yeah, that's true to a certain extent. But consciousness is more fundamental than that. Yeah, so new cognition, and it's just a type of processing that we don't understand. And I felt it in the past as information overload. And I'm wondering, too, if this process of self dialog could help with information overload, in that, at least, then I'm speaking, I'm giving voice to some of the information that goes through me. And in that way, sort of making it manifest, instead of sort of having it swirling around inside of me and having to play with my energy through the entropic process. And so it's actually making it manifests instead of just having things always swirling around. Because if manic consciousness is part of the learning process, then by speaking to myself, I'm helping myself learn and integrate what I've learned, and, and part of the learning is to not accumulate and just sort of release it and, and go on to the next thing. And in that way, perhaps, this change in consciousness, which I feel could have something to do with entropy with information, there's the change in consciousness is what releases information from, from the body or wherever it's stored. And then we have access to that information in consciousness and, and going down to the lowest levels of consciousness, we have access to information from those low, low levels of consciousness, especially when we're actually in the bipolar process, because then we're actually more identified with that consciousness than we are with the present moment in our body. So then we have more access to the other information. And it breaks us out of habit. And that's one of the reasons why I feel it's important to not live in habit. So all these things a man in consciousness does, it's important to design into one's Life consciously by our own freewill. Because in mania sometimes the scary part is we feel like we don't have any control. And then when we get control back, we just go back to our own ways, we don't actually listen to what that energy was trying to tell us and not just tell us, show us through making us act certain ways physically. And then, you know, some people hear voices, there's all these different levels of consciousness of the universe trying to communicate with us, and give us some other form of compass then it's like an intuitive compass. And it's a different compass than the one that we're used to from our own ego consciousness. It's those ones, our voice, our own voice, for our own ego, consciousness. Those are all things we got from the outside. Somebody else told us something or media or school or conditioning, we don't listen to what's happening on the inside. And then no wonder sometimes the Inside Energy takes us over and moves us and animates us in ways that are so good in some ways, and then some we don't really want and then when we get out of that energy, we can actually choose because we see we have more degrees of freedom than we originally thought.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/bipolar_inquiry. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Podcast: Inside EnergyEpisode: Oil Crash Raises New Fears About Abandoned WellsPub date: 2015-09-25When energy booms bust, the public is often left responsible for the cleanup. That's because while most states and the federal government make companies put up at least some money in advance to pay for any mess they leave behind, it's often not enough. In Wyoming, the recent bust of the coal bed methane industry has left the state responsible for plugging thousands of wells, at a cost of tens of millions of dollars. Now, with both oil and natural gas prices in a slump, Wyoming Public Radio's Stephanie Joyce reports for Inside Energy on whether history is bound to repeat itself.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Inside Energy, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

What is happening in the world of Energy and Utilities? Here are the most interesting stories of last week. If you want a summary of the most interesting stories, you can listen to them here.  This week we'll discuss: Labour's pledge to fund billions in energy efficiency measures; Global energy efficiency progress at the lowest rate since 2010 and Battery Storage. 

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Is having oil and gas development nearby bad for your health? In this story, we’re going to dig into what is known and what is unknown about these dangers and why those unknowns still exist, as more and more wells are drilled. We’re going to meet different people with different perspectives, who are all gathering data or studying it. They’re looking for answers and living with unknowns.

A natural gas boom in the U.S. is changing the power sector in the country. It's credited with bringing down American carbon dioxide emissions more than any other factor. But, one difficult to control component of the natural gas industry threatens to undermine those gains. This audio special from Inside Energy explores the serious and persistent problem of methane leaks.

The whole concept of "clean coal" is wonky. Real technical, real complicated. Not as simple as President Trump would have you believe. But what does the term actually mean? In truth, it can mean a lot of different things. When many people talk about clean coal, they are talking about cleaning up carbon dioxide out of coal emissions. In Wyoming, where the majority of this country’s coal is still mined, clean coal is looked at as a possible economic savior. It’s a big deal for a lot of other people, too. Forty percent of the world still depends on coal for electricity, and it’s still one of the cheapest and most abundant fuels. But CO2 from coal and other fossil fuels is causing global warming. So it would be nice if we didn’t produce so much of it from burning coal. On this episode, Inside Energy’s Madelyn Beck takes us on a 360 degree view of clean coal to answer some of our questions. 

Tax reform is going to impact renewables, oil and gas, and energy overall in the western U.S. Now that the President has signed the final tax bill into law, what does it mean for western energy? Inside Energy helps unpack.

President Donald Trump has used the term “clean coal” a lot lately, but what is clean coal? Well, it can mean a lot of different things, depending who you ask. For some, it's history. For others, it's a fantasy. And for still others, it's a necessity. But could it become a reality that helps bring back coal and helps stop climate change? Inside Energy’s Madelyn Beck digs deep.

An increasing number of cities are claiming they will go it alone to meet the emission reduction targets of the Paris Climate Agreement. This comes in the wake of President Trump's decision to pull the U.S. out of the Paris accord earlier this year. Just last week, mayors from more than 50 North American cities signed a formal agreement to reduce greenhouse gases in their communities. Inside Energy’s Dan Boyce looks at how they’re doing in trying to reach those goals.

President Trump is set to announce a plan to shrink the boundaries of two national monuments in Utah: Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears National Monument, the latter created by President Obama one year ago this month. Trump’s action will mark an important milestone in the story of these two red buttes which has become an outsized symbol for a slew of western issues. Inside Energy’s Leigh Paterson reports.

Wyoming’s biggest bet on clean coal is almost finished. The Integrated Test Center outside Gillette aims to host researchers who are finding ways to turn carbon emissions into marketable products. But what does this test center and clean coal mean for the state, the coal industry or climate change? Inside Energy’s Madelyn Beck takes us on a 360 degree view of clean coal to answer that question.

The American West is known for its wide open spaces. That can make for some pretty epic road trips -- unless you have an electric vehicle and you’re stuck hours away from a charge…. Sales of E-Vs are climbing and some forecasters predict half of the vehicles sold worldwide will be electric by 2040. But, in present day, a lack of charging stations is still holding back this transportation revolution. Inside Energy’s Dan Boyce reports on an agreement between Western states to try and calm so-called “range anxiety.”

The Trump administration has been pulling back federal environmental regulations as fast as it can. The legal argument is that states should be the ones to decide what level of environmental protection and regulation is right for them. In practice, many regulations related to oil and gas development are already in the hands of states, and even local governments. On this episode, we look at how one state is handling one of those regulations, a pretty basic-sounding rule that says how far oil and gas wells must be from someone’s house. What should this number be? What is a safe distance? That is a big, contentious question in places where oil and gas drilling is happening near people. With help from our friends at Inside Energy, we find out how that issue is playing out on the ground.

Inside Energy’s Leigh Paterson reports on the struggle between two priorities in Colorado: energy development and housing development. She takes us to the Front Range, where drilling rigs and subdivisions are both going up, in towns north of Denver. At the intersection of the these two types of development are serious concerns about health and safety. The following story first appeared as an episode of the podcast Trump on Earth.

If Ryan Zinke is modeling himself after the Conservationist President, Teddy Roosevelt, then why is he making headlines for rolling back land protections? There's more of an answer there than you might think. This half-hour Inside Energy special is hosted by Leigh Paterson and reported by Dan Boyce

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About three quarters of the 640 million acres of land that the federal government owns is managed by the Department of the Interior. And under the leadership of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, the Department of Interior is poised to shrink the borders of at least four national monuments, potentially opening up hundreds of thousands of acres to development. On this episode, we try to find out who Ryan Zinke is by learning about the man Zinke calls his biggest inspiration. Teddy Roosevelt basically invented the national parks system, and has arguably done more for conservation than anyone else in U.S. history. So if the top steward of public lands is modeling himself after a conservationist, why is he making headlines for rolling back land protections? Opening up federal land for more oil and gas development? We find out with the help from our friends at Inside Energy.   

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The oil & gas industry is pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars into local politics in a Denver suburb, fighting a measure that could give the town more control over drilling. This ballot question is part of a much larger fight over health, safety, policy, and state law that's playing out in towns across northern Colorado as oil and gas development moves in. Inside Energy’s Leigh Paterson reports.

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The Department of the Interior is outlining potential steps aimed at increasing energy production on federal lands. Interior Secretary, Ryan Zinke, says boosting production of resources like oil and gas creates jobs and enhances the nation’s energy security. It’s another pro-industry headline for a Secretary touting himself as not only an avid outdoorsman, but a follower of the conservation ideals of the 26th President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt. Inside Energy’s Dan Boyce looks at how their philosophies stack up.

Today, the Trump Administration kicked off the formal process of repealing an Obama-era rule called the Clean Power Plan. But many in Colorado think the state will stay the course on reducing carbon emissions. Inside Energy’s Leigh Paterson reports.

Wyoming and the country of Japan are working out a relationship over coal. Wyoming wants to export that coal, and Japan wants to buy it. Both want to figure out an affordable way to clean up coal emissions. Inside Energy’s Madelyn Beck reports on how this mutually beneficial relationship is facing challenges on all fronts.

Future development on vast swaths of western land is uncertain now that sage grouse is back on the agenda. The well-being of this chicken-like bird was the focus of a hard-fought deal- a compromise, between nearly a dozen states, finalized a few years ago. Now the federal government is asking for changes to that deal with energy development and jobs in mind. Inside Energy’s Leigh Paterson teamed up with Wyoming Public Radio’s Cooper McKim to report on what it all means for compromise on major western issues.

Over eighty percent of new wind power last year went up in states that voted for President Donald Trump. It may sound strange when Trump’s aim is to bolster coal, not wind, but what red states usually promote is individual choice and a smart use of money. Inside Energy’s Madelyn Beck reports that wind power - both large and small - is literally changing Wyoming’s energy landscape.

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Superfund cleanups are a priority for Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. He wants to cut through red tape that has left more than a thousand sites still contaminated -- with everything from radioactive waste to lead. He also wants to remove sites that have already been cleaned up from the so-called National Priority List which has more than 1300 sites. Inside Energy’s Dan Boyce visited a town in western Colorado that’s been on that list since 1986.

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People and oil and gas development don’t always make good neighbors. This is especially true in northern Colorado where tensions among residents, energy producers, and lawmakers are playing out in battles over drilling projects. But the uncomfortable intersection of tons of people living on top of rich fossil fuel resources is forcing communities and companies to figure it out. Inside Energy’s Leigh Paterson reports.

Colorado’s governor is stepping up regulations on the state’s oil and gas industry. Tuesday’s announcement follows a home explosion in April that killed two people. One controversial issue the new measures do not change -- how far the state’s expanding oil and gas operations can be from homes. Inside Energy’s Leigh Paterson reports.

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President Trump idealizes a traditional view of American life, an America based on industry and lifting up the image of the blue collar working man. And no working man has been more lauded under this administration than the American coal miner. The economics for coal aren’t looking good, between regulations and low prices for natural gas and renewables. Still, Trump has been trying to fulfill his campaign promise to bring back mining jobs. Inside Energy’s Dan Boyce recently spent a weekend with a Colorado coal miner, for a perspective on the ground.

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There is a lot of natural gas locked underground in Western Colorado, Wyoming and Utah. Trouble is, it can be tough to get that gas to market. Enter President Donald Trump. The administration is signalling that a natural gas terminal in coastal Oregon denied a critical permit under the Obama administration could have new life. Inside Energy’s Dan Boyce has the story.

Central Oklahoma is still feeling aftershocks from a 4.2-magnitude quake that struck earlier this week. A key part in solving the earthquake crisis is managing the enormous amount of water that comes to the surface when oil and gas is pumped out of the ground. It's a billion-barrel-a-year problem the energy industry is working to solve. One promising alternative is reusing this wastewater instead of injecting it underground. Joe Wertz from StateImpact Oklahoma reports for Inside Energy.

n most parts of the country, solar energy has been having a great decade. Estimates puts the industry’s growth at 16-hundred percent over the last 8 years. A great decade, maybe, but solar’s been having a really bad year -- especially residential rooftop solar. There’s been a big-time slowdown in that market, and bankruptcies abound from the likes of SunEdison, Sungevity, Suniva, and at least one company not starting with Sun -- SolarWorld. Inside Energy’s Dan Boyce looks into what’s going on.

Millions of gallons of salty wastewater are produced each day wherever there’s oil and gas production. Most states inject wastewater deep underground. But in Wyoming, above-ground wastewater ponds are still used. Regulators now want to make sure the state will not be left scrambling to pay for and figure out cleanup, once the ponds are shut down. Inside Energy’s Madelyn Beck reports.

A Toxic Legacy: North Dakota Looks To Clean Up Old Oilfield Waste by Inside Energy

The wind energy industry is growing worldwide, and so is the global competition between turbine-makers. That battle is now playing out in Wyoming, a state with some of the best wind potential in the nation. In the next few years two massive wind power projects are slated to come on line. To get an edge, a Chinese company is trying to win over the state’s scant pool of workers through free training to become a wind turbine technician. Inside Energy’s Madelyn Beck reports.

Oil markets are turbulent -- Still, prices are high enough right now that oil companies are expanding their drilling operations here in the US. Of all the problems to have, though, companies aren’t getting as much oil out of the ground as they want because they can’t find enough workers for their highly paid jobs. Inside Energy’s Dan Boyce picks up the story from the side of a highway near oil country.

The US Secretary of the Interior, Ryan Zinke, is recommending a reduction in the size of the controversial, and brand new, Bears Ears National Monument in Utah. That follows a directive from President Trump to review all large monuments designated since the late 90s. Trump argues some of these monuments actually restrict access to public land and burden both local governments and local economies. Inside Energy’s Dan Boyce reports from another of these monuments under review in North Central Montana.

After a home exploded north of Denver in April, killing two people, the investigation into what happened is underway, clean-up is ongoing, lawsuits are being filed and people who live in that small community are worried. Not only about their safety but about the value of their homes. The explosion was caused by a leaking pipeline, attached to an oil and gas well and in this part of Colorado, that kind of infrastructure is everywhere. Inside Energy’s Leigh Paterson reports.