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New Jersey to begin implementing medical marijuana laws

By | 07.23.11 | 7:42 pm

You don’t see this everyday. The Philadelphia Inquirer has published an editorial praising NJ Governor Chris Christie for finally getting off the nickel and beginning implementation of that state’s medical marijuana laws.

Suthers to file contempt motion against Doug Bruce, ‘Mr X’

By | 06.11.10 | 3:57 pm

Colorado Attorney General John Suthers plans to seek sanctions for contempt of court against elusive Colorado Springs anti-tax activist Douglas Bruce. The news suggests some consequence might be in the offing for Bruce after he spent weeks flouting a court order to produce documents and give testimony as part of a case concerning three tax-slashing ballot initiatives secretly authored and illegally financed by Bruce.

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

Texas gas company allowed to resume fracking after three Pa. spills

By | 10.19.09 | 4:12 pm

Hydraulic fracturing – the subject of so much controversy on Colorado’s Western Slope lately – will be allowed to resume in Susquehanna County, Pa., after state environmental officials said they were satisfied with prevention plans submitted by a Texas…

More fodder for FRAC Act backers as Pa. officials shut down fracking ops

By | 09.26.09 | 4:18 pm

State Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) officials in Pennsylvania have ordered Texas-based Cabot Oil and Gas to stop all hydraulic fracturing activities in Susquehanna County after a series of chemical spills into local groundwater supplies.

ProPublica reported on Friday

Fracking fluid kills fish in Pennsylvania stream, state enviro officials say

By | 09.22.09 | 7:20 am

ProPublica Monday reported environmental officials were scrambling to clean up 8,000 gallons of a “potential carcinogen” manufactured by Halliburton and used in a natural gas drilling process called hydraulic fracturing that spilled into a creek near Dimock, Pa.

Hydraulic…

NYT editorial laments ‘fracking,’ gas drilling in Catskill Mountains

By | 07.28.09 | 2:41 pm

Any Coloradan who’s spent a significant amount of time living or working back east knows how difficult it is to duplicate the true wilderness experiences one finds in the wide-open spaces of the Rocky Mountain West.

There are places, like…

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