In the Greater Chaco region of northwest New Mexico, new fracking technologies are stirring up lands, chemicals, and relations that concentrate attention in the surround. This article argues that extraction’s cumulative atmospheric effects are experienced by Diné residents of the region in ways that cannot be accounted for by the agencies that manage oil and gas. The state’s presumption of atmospheric commensurability is reinforced by techniques of settler governance that fragment ecological and ontological domains like air and land. This fragmentation often preempts the possibility for Indigenous claims to meaningfully disrupt administrative or judicial actions. Unfolding extraction’s atmospheres across three cases, I examine how scale mediates the problem of commensurability. I describe how prevailing approaches to regulating impacts of the oil and gas industry manipulate scale in ways that obscure the cumulative effects of extraction.  Drawing on fieldwork with Diné residents of the region who have mobilized to study how fracking affects their wellbeing, and I show how this scalar work facilitates the commensuration of extraction’s impacts across Indigenous and non-Indigenous worlds––as well as when this commensuration fails.

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聚合空气：大查科地区的石油和天然气大气

在新墨西哥州西北部的大查科地区，新的水力压裂技术正在搅动土地、化学品和关系，从而将注意力集中在周围。本文认为，该地区的 Diné 居民以无法由石油和天然气管理机构解释的方式经历开采对大气的累积影响。国家对大气可公度的假设被定居者治理技术强化，这些技术将生态和本体论领域（如空气和土地）分割开来。这种分裂通常会阻止原住民主张有意义地扰乱行政或司法行动的可能性。在三个案例中展开提取的气氛，我研究了规模如何调解可公度问题。我描述了调节石油和天然气行业影响的流行方法如何以掩盖开采累积效应的方式操纵规模。利用该地区 Diné 居民的实地工作，他们动员起来研究水力压裂如何影响他们的福祉，我展示了这种标量工作如何促进对土著和非土著世界的开采影响进行比较，以及当这种比较失败时。