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I can't believe Gary Hart, as senator from this very state, was willing, at one point, to grind up the Rockies into shale oil.
USAT 's "Money" section brings word that the chemical company FMC is in serious talks with the federal government and Shoshone-Bannock Indian reps to settle a lawsuit alleging that FMC's fifty-year-old shale extraction operation at the tribe's southeastern Idaho reservation has left a significant number of Native Americans with lung cancer and other respiratory illnesses.
These deep caves were the scene of a mini gold rush in 1861, when New Englanders poured into the area to pan a few — very few — nuggets from the shale on the beach.