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In most oil fields, the water that companies pump up with the oil gets reinjected deep underground. But the federal government allows a dozen oil fields on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming to pump streams of this wastewater onto the land.
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report came out Tuesday, showing an overall decline in energy jobs around the nation.
Before the pandemic, job numbers in the energy sector were growing twice as fast as the economy, according to the report. But by the end of 2020, about 840,000 jobs were lost (about 10%).
Since most of us didn’t travel much, there’s no surprise that demand for fuels like oil and gasoline tanked. Because of that, good-paying jobs associated with fuels didn’t do so well. That’s especially true in energy-heavy states like Colorado and Wyoming.
Energy Job Numbers Slumped Last Year, But Are On The Rebound
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