Natural Gas on the Rise

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There’s a gold rush underway across the mountain west. This time the gold is methane gas, and it’s cleaner than coal. Thousands of wells are going in. But there’s a downside too, and ranchers are organizing against the industry. Living on Earth’s Anna Solomon Greenbaum reports.

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