Colorado’s Mined Land Reclamation Board (MLRB) Thursday established new rules to protect Colorado’s groundwater during in-situ uranium mining, drawing quick and effusive praise from members of the state’s conservation community who have been working on uranium mining issues for…
Secretary of State Bernie Buescher Monday night told the Colorado Independent he was way ahead of his Republican critics on what needed to happen in Colorado to comply with a new federal law dictating the speed of mailing overseas ballots to members of the military, but lawmakers dragged their feet because of election-year politics.
DENVER– The House passed legislation Monday meant to tighten guidelines on debt collection agency practices, offering Colorado debtors an added measure of protection from unscrupulous and illegal collection tactics at a time when more Americans are defaulting on credit card debt than ever before.
State Sen. Al White, R-Hayden, Friday promised to end the high times in the high country, serving up a big dose of GOP buzz kill in a release outlining legislation he’ll introduce next session to snuff out the current “free-for-all”…
Dr. Geoffrey Thyne is no Ward Churchill. He’s a geologist and an academic with three decades of field work and experience as a research scientist in the oil and gas industry, including the last 13 years at Colorado School of Mines in Golden.
Even as winter weather rolled back into Colorado Thursday and squelched three wildfires that Tuesday scorched thousands of acres, killed three firefighters and destroyed scores of buildings, fire officials in the mountains warned against complacency – especially in light of…
Governor Bill Ritter signed three legislative bills in Frisco this morning before a crowd of nearly 100. According to Rep. Dan Gibbs, who introduced the three bills Ritter was signing, this was probably the first time a governor had come…
The new Western soap opera still involves the traditional players: those in white hats; the villains; the law; the victims; and shoot-outs. We’re describing the oil and gas extraction story in Northwest Colorado and almost every week a new chapter…
Colorado Confidential takes a look at oil and gas drilling hearings and legislation and the 25th anniversary of “Black Sunday,” the day Exxon pulled the plug on oil shale development in the Rifle area-May 2nd, 1982.
Club 20, a Western Slope lobbying group and Colorado Oil and Gas Association, a trade group that promotes the industry, have something in common. Both organizations say there are an over-abundance of gas bills in the legislature.
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