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As Salazar Heads Back to Colorado, Friends and Foes Reflect on His Time at Interior

By | 02.17.13 | 8:45 am

Like any good — or bad — Secretary of the Interior, Colorado’s Ken Salazar will leave Washington in a few weeks with a long list of both friends and enemies. Thing is though, they’re pretty much the same friends and enemies he had when he got there.

Obama touts record U.S. oil and gas production in wake of pipeline rejection

By | 01.19.12 | 7:06 am

Rejecting both the Republican push for an accelerated Keystone XL oil pipeline and the GOP argument that he doesn’t care about jobs, President Barack Obama Wednesday touted his record of increased domestic oil and gas production.

Natural gas flaring in North Park, Colo. (EcoFlights photo)

Air emissions from gas fracking operations take center stage at EPA hearing in Denver

By | 09.29.11 | 10:48 am

Harmful, smog-causing emissions from the natural gas drilling process of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, should be curtailed as swiftly as possible by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), conservation groups argued at an EPA meeting in Denver on Wednesday.