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A cemetery in the high desert gains a neighbor of a natural gas storage tank in Weld County, Colorado. A boom in oil and gas drilling across the American West has led to pollution and environmental problems in what were once pristine lands. Traveling rigs go from location to location, drilling down into the shale rock, and are soon followed by pumps that inject a toxic brew of water and chemicals for hydraulic extraction or 'fracking' of oil and gas. Photograph by Roger M. Richards

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A cemetery in the high desert gains a neighbor of a natural gas storage tank in Weld County, Colorado. A boom in oil and gas drilling across the American West has led to pollution and environmental problems in what were once pristine lands. Traveling rigs go from location to location, drilling down into the shale rock, and are soon followed by pumps that inject a toxic brew of water and chemicals for hydraulic extraction or 'fracking' of oil and gas. Photograph by Roger M. Richards
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