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House Committee approves Lamborn bill to open more land to oil shale exploration

By | 02.02.12 | 6:56 am

Oil shale isn’t yet commercially viable but on Wednesday the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources passed Rep. Doug Lamborn’s bill to speed up its production in the West anyway.

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Survey says Coloradans are fed up with oil companies, want more renewables

By | 08.24.11 | 8:39 am

Coloradans blame market speculation and oil companies for high gas prices, and the vast majority say the best way to bring prices down is to crackdown on market manipulation, according to a poll released Tuesday.

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Coffman cites Obama’s tapping of strategic reserves in bill to promote onshore drilling

By | 06.28.11 | 11:35 am

What Republican Congressman Cory Gardner hopes to do for offshore oil and gas drilling in Alaska, his fellow Colorado GOP House member Mike Coffman is looking to do for onshore drilling on federal lands across the country — strip away perceived environmental regulatory hurdles. Coffman dropped his Facilitating American Security Through Energy Resources Act (FASTER) bill on Monday and immediately got blowback from environmental watchdog groups.

Love it, hate it: Conservationists split on Sherman pick to head USFS

By | 09.10.09 | 4:10 pm

Some conservationists praised the Obama administration’s nomination Thursday of Harris Sherman to the post of Undersecretary of Natural Resources and Environment at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Others aren’t quite so sure the two-time head of the Colorado Department of…