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Posts by Troy Hooper

Troy Hooper covers environmental policy for the American Independent News Network. His work has been published in The Denver Post, Rocky Mountain News, Huffington Post, San Francisco Weekly, Playboy, New York Post, People and dozens of other publications. Hooper has covered the Winter Olympics in Italy, an extreme ski camp in South America and gone behind the scenes with Hunter S. Thompson on election night in 2004. Born and raised in Boulder, Hooper has a bachelor's degree in English from the University of California at Santa Barbara.

House passes sweeping energy package brought to you by Colorado Republicans

By | 06.21.12 | 3:35 pm

The U.S. House passed a sweeping energy package Thursday that Alison Gannett, a farmer in the North Fork Valley, said puts “oil and gas companies first and Coloradans last.”

Pace rips Tipton for fire prevention flip-flop

By | 06.21.12 | 10:56 am

As partisan bickering grew heated Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton, R-Colo., under pressure from his Republican colleagues, changed his vote on a fire-prevention measure at the last minute.

Colorado congressman looks to put 1,000 feet between frackers and schools

By | 06.20.12 | 1:55 pm

BOULDER — There are a lot of opinions on how far hydraulic fracturing should be from schools. One resident near a drilling operation a few hundred yards from Red Hawk Elementary School in Erie said he was probably the only one on his block who didn’t mind the noise or environmental and health risks Encana Corp.’s project brought with it. Still, in a perfect world, he said he’d prefer it were a mile away.

VIDEO: Udall not giving up push for wind tax credit

By | 06.19.12 | 12:40 pm

U.S. Sen. Mark Udall has a new routine. He wakes up every morning, puts on a suit and tie and then implores his colleagues on Capitol Hill to pass the wind production tax credit.

Pace says Tipton refuses to debate

By | 06.18.12 | 3:57 pm

Colorado Third Congressional District Challenger Sal Pace issued a press release today, calling out Republican Congressman Scott Tipton for his apparent unwillingness to debate him.

Records detail secret meeting between oil executives, government officials

By | 06.18.12 | 10:57 am

GLENWOOD SPRINGS — Newly released documents confirm that politicians and industry representatives secretly met in March to hammer out a position on the Bureau of Land Management’s plan to scale back available lands in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming for oil shale research and development.

Bacon to bring conservation effort home with plan that would protect 90,000 acres

By | 06.15.12 | 3:47 pm

Billionaire hedge-funder Louis Bacon is donating a conservation easement on 90,000 acres bordering the San Luis Valley, which will provide the foundation for the proposed new Sangre de Cristo Conservation Area that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is in the process of establishing.

Conservationists blast Colorado governor’s new utilities commission appointee

By | 06.15.12 | 7:36 am

The governor this week named Pam Patton, of Bayfield, to the PUC, where she joins former Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation chairman Joshua Epel and Republican appointee James Tarpey.

With fracking creeping toward schools, candidates drill down their positions

By | 06.15.12 | 6:19 am

As concerns mount over oil and gas rigs inching closer to several Colorado schools, legislators are looking toward 2013 to sort out whether local controls should take a backseat to state regulations.

Shaffer, Dems skewer Rep. Gardner for politicizing Colorado’s deadly High Park Fire

By | 06.13.12 | 12:06 pm

It didn’t take long for the High Park Fire to become politicized.

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