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A lawsuit filed on behalf of a Colorado man who died when a Quinto, Oklahoma oil rig exploded on January 22, 2018, makes new claims of negligence in addition to the safety failures cited in earlier complaints. According to a story from the Associated Press, “Parker Waldridge's family alleges...

Oil and gas field work is dangerous, with some of the highest fatality rates of any industry. The Bakken oilfield, located on both sides of the Montana – North Dakota border, is one of the worst when it comes to worker death and injury.
Since 2006, at least 74 people have died, an...

Earlier this year a study by Colorado School of Public Health scholars determined that people who reside within 500 feet of an oil and gas extraction site have a cancer risk eight times higher than the maximum lifetime risk established by the Environmental Protection Agency. Residents of towns...

Landowners located in top-producing U.S. shale plays like the Bakken, Barnett, Eagle Ford, and Haynesville-Bossier are sitting on some seriously valuable property. Deposits in these regions are considered among the world’s richest, with some Eagle Ford landowners collecting over $12,000 per...