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Ritter shoots down farm-truck bill on environmental, financial grounds

By | 05.11.10 | 7:52 am

Gov. Bill Ritter Monday vetoed his first bill of the 2010 legislative session, shooting down House Bill 1101 (pdf), which would have removed the current requirement that county clerks thoroughly vet anyone seeking a farm vehicle registration.

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Report: Texas town offers cautionary tale on oil and gas drilling emissions

By | 12.21.09 | 2:54 pm

Based on the experiences of one small town in Texas, residents of the Colorado Western Slope community of Battlement Mesa are right to be worried about the potential air-quality impacts of a proposal to drill up to 200 natural gas…

Huge plumes of heat-trapping methane wasted in gas drilling, infrared reveals

By | 10.15.09 | 11:59 am

Natural gas wells and storage tanks throughout Colorado may look fairly benign to the casual observer, but infrared cameras show them gushing heat-trapping methane into the atmosphere, according to the New York Times and a new documentary called “Split