did not investigate legitimate complaints from citizens in garfield county. if you lived in or in a rural residential area and you were in a low lying area your house was in a low lying area they could accumulate the gases when they come off the tank battery and so forth you may be breathing those for twelve hours a day one of the concerns of the agency with respect to the oil and gas industry is how much volatile organic carbon how much volatile gases come from the industry especially from storage of oil or storage of gas. last summer in an effort to track down how much volatile organic carbon was coming from the oil and gas industry a unique study was undertaken by e.p.a. and e.p.a. brought in some infrared cameras. and turned them towards these oil and gas facilities and under infrared light. the volatile organic commissions were visible . they looked like. a mirage. and so one could see in this in for a good read camera the amount of volatile organic carbon coming off these storage tanks. every well is drilled into a straight and it has organic chemicals.

and of course it's the government garfield county located high in the colorado rockies was always a quiet rural area for its residents. but in the one nine hundred ninety s. things started to change. gas in oil drilling began to boom and development has expanded dramatically each year when i first came to colorado twenty seven years ago the energy production was for oil and at the time that there was the synthetic fuels corporation and it was all about oil shale natural gas and they didn't have pipelines for it and so they were trying to figure out what to do with all the natural gas you know there was a lot of there was no use for it at the time now natural gas was the biggest thing that's going on in lester in colorado. there's no and canada leases in here and cross roads build very corporation and over there on ten acre spacing for me are really what you're looking for and you knew how many wells were on pads it i bet you could see three four hundred wells. you're standing right over a pipeline right here by the way. right where we're standing we had a spill. do you see over my head he

garfield 6:02. boxville 6:05. we have severe thunderstorm warnings in effect till 6:15 for washington and frederick counties in maryland. we'll widen the radar back out. after this storm there's not much in the immediate metro area. we have time to put the umbrellas down and get ready for another batch of storms that will roll in here later on tonight. the frontal system itself is still way back to the west. it's just off this map right now. until that rolls through, we run the risk of showers and storms. we're going to keep the chance in at least till midnight and maybe extend it past that and we'll talk about that coming up. >> thank you, topper. >>> this evening we are about to get our first do or die test on whether maryland will go for vegas style gambling and also allow a casino at national harbor in prince george's county. the state senate is poised to vote on this issue in the next few hours. our scott broom is live in annapolis monitoring it all. scotty? >> reporter: well, in fact the senators are streaming in right now for a 6:00 session. they are widely expected to push this gambling bill through. so that's