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Cleaning up the West could prove to be as lucrative as the extractive industries that wrecked it.

Ryan Kellogg discusses why carbon pricing actually may not be a more efficient emissions-reduction policy than clean energy standards or subsidies.

Deborah Gordon discusses the wide variety of types of oils and gases and why their differences are significant for climate policy.

Dozens of state and local budgets depend heavily on tax revenue from oil, gas and coal to fund schools, hospitals and more. Replacing that money is turning out to be a major challenge in the fight against climate change.

Gas prices were up again Wednesday by another four cents over Tuesday as Michigan continues to top the national average by about 26 cents. AAA reports the

SANTA FE, N.M. -- Government budgets are booming in New Mexico: Teacher salaries are up, residents can go to an in-state college tuition-free, moms will get medical care for a year after childbirth, and criminal justice initiatives are being funded to reduce urban violence.

State governments in the nation’s top regions for producing oil, natural gas and coal have by far the highest per-capita reliance on fossil fuels.

Lightning sparked a few new small fires in the drought-stricken Southwest Monday but the thunderstorms brought welcome rain to the monster blaze that's been churning for a month in New Mexico and is now the state's largest in recorded history.The Albuquerque city budget is growing by about 20 percent in a plan approved by city councilors last night.

Their budgets might be rich for now with petroleum cash. But, if tackling climate change cuts into that, will they tax residents more — or reduce public services?

Major energy producing states from Alaska to Pennsylvania are reaping a windfall from soaring oil and natural gas prices, stoked by the war in Ukraine and the U.S.-led ban on Russian oil imports