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DeGette ‘fracking’ amendment doesn’t fly; ExxonMobil shareholders vote

By | 05.26.10 | 4:26 pm

Colorado Rep. Diana DeGette’s bid to get full public disclosure of the chemicals used in the hydraulic fracturing of natural gas wells was withdrawn as an amendment to a Safe Drinking Water Act bill Wednesday after debate by the…

DeGette to float ‘fracking’ amendment to Safe Drinking Water Act legislation

By | 05.25.10 | 6:27 pm

Colorado Rep. Diana DeGette Wednesday will introduce an amendment calling for full disclosure of hydraulic fracturing fluids to a bill introduced earlier this month that’s meant to strengthen the Safe Drinking Water Act.

Penry-passed pit-liner bill to protect groundwater upheld by Denver judge

By | 01.21.10 | 4:00 pm

A bill mandating stricter handling of oil and gas brine that was passed in 2008 by strange bedfellows Josh Penry, R-Grand Junction, in the state Senate and Bernie Buescher, D-Grand Junction, in the House was upheld by a Denver District…

New York report blasts gas industry as GarCo weighs FRAC Act resolution

By | 11.09.09 | 10:16 am

Even as the Garfield County commissioners today take up debate on a resolution regarding the FRAC (Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals) Act, an environmental researcher in New York released a damning report on the natural gas industry in…

McInnis praises gas-happy Pa. despite increasing chemical contamination

By | 11.02.09 | 10:59 am

Former U.S. Rep. Scott McInnis, a six-time Republican congressman representing Colorado’s Western Slope, would like to turn the state’s prime mountain playgrounds into something more closely resembling the industrialized environs of Pennsylvania.

At least that’s our interpretation of a

Report: gas industry execs starting to see the light on chemical disclosure

By | 10.05.09 | 3:22 pm

The oil and gas industry is starting to see some cracks in its to-date united front against federal oversight of the common drilling practice known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, according to ProPublica and other media sources.

A pair…