EPA gives initial approval to Colorado’s collaborative plan to reduce air pollution

Colorado officials have a plan to reduce more than 70,000 tons of pollutants annually from the skies by 2018. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency preliminarily approved the plan Friday.

Ohio officials issue new drilling rules, tie fracking waste to swarm of earthquakes

Regulators in Ohio rocked the oil and gas industry Friday with the strongest allegation yet that hydraulic fracturing could be triggering earthquakes.

Colorado Southern Ute Indian tribe first in nation to operate Clean Air Act program

A Native American tribe in southwestern Colorado this week became the first in the nation to operate a Clean Air Act program.

Environmentalists blast Colorado’s new drilling task force as Trojan horse

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper’s intervention in the debate over whether the state or local jurisdictions should regulate oil and gas drilling is rankling environmentalists who, two days earlier, called him out for making misleading statements on groundwater contamination.

Coalition offers to pay energy companies $2.5 million to protect Thompson Divide

A coalition of groups in and around Carbondale is proposing a settlement to reimburse companies who own natural gas leases in the Thompson Divide area in exchange for retiring 43 leases currently in question and protecting the area from future energy development there.

Colorado Senate rejects GOP drill bill to preclude local authority over oil, gas

Colorado’s Democrat-controlled Senate rejected a predominately Republican attempt Thursday to roll back the rights of cities and counties to regulate oil and gas drilling in their own back yards.

Senate Bill 88 would have bestowed omnipotent oversight of the industry…

Groups want to hasten COGCC director’s exit, call for improved oil and gas oversight

Citing the pending departure of David Neslin, environmentalists are speaking out against the “ongoing parade of regulators” leaving state government to take jobs with the industries they formerly regulated.

Santorum and Gingrich dismiss climate change, vow to dismantle the EPA

GOLDEN — A day before Republicans voice their presidential preferences in Colorado caucuses, Rick Santorum dismissed climate change as “a hoax” and advocated an energy plan heavy on fossil fuels.

David Neslin leaving Colorado oil and gas post for Denver private law practice

The director of the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission announced he will resign his post this month and practice law instead.

Obama clean energy push draws partisan reaction from Colorado lawmakers

President Obama’s call to increase domestic energy production Tuesday received a rosy reception from Colorado’s lefty lawmakers but was all but ignored by its conservative congressional delegation who are still smarting from the commander-in-chief’s recent blocking of the Keystone XL oil pipeline.