Gas development makes small rural town and surrounding area full of unhealthy air-
DEQ issues ozone alert for Pinedale. By Jeff Gearino. Casper Star Tribune.
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Ralph Maughan
Dr. Ralph Maughan is professor emeritus of political science at Idaho State University with specialties in natural resource politics, public opinion, interest groups, political parties, voting and elections. Aside from academic publications, he is author or co-author of three hiking/backpacking guides, and he is past President of the Western Watersheds Project.
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“Researchers now recognize that the ongoing natural gas development in the region has a lot to do with that trend. There are an estimated 5,000 oil and gas wells in the basin, which includes the lucrative Jonah and Pinedale Anticline fields in southwest Wyoming.”
Well duh!