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Billton Werito and his son Amari stand in front of a drilling pad near their house in an area where oil and gas drilling close to a local elementary school is causing students, including Amari, to miss school from negative health effects according to Werito, in Counselor, N.M., Navajo Nation, Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (Nadav Soroker/Searchlight New Mexico via AP)

Oil and gas have boomed in New Mexico. Its schools are contending with pollution’s effects

By Ed Williams of Searchlight New Mexico and Susan Montoya Bryan of The Associated Press - Associated Press