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In drilling boom Colorado, wells are being placed too close to homes and schools because overwhelmed regulators have approved permits with incomplete documentation.

In the wake of news that a second earthquake this month has shaken an are north of Greeley around a fracking "injection well," Colorado regulators have directed High Sierra Water Services to suspend operations there.

Residents for years have raised concerns about air quality, water contamination, noise and traffic. Now authorities have given them something else to worry about: fires and spills local safety officials admit they are unprepared to handle.

Notes from the General Assembly's 64th day in the 2014 legislative session.

An Anadarko Petroleum oil tank damaged by flood waters has released "an estimated 125 barrels or 5,250 gallons into the South Platte River," according to the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.

Intact oil and gas wells are alike. Damaged oil and gas wells are each damaged in their own way. Weld County, Colorado, is host to...

The state of Colorado has joined a lawsuit filed by oil-and-gas companies against the city of Longmont that seeks to lift a ban on fracking passed by citizen initiative there last November.

A new report blasts the state agency charged with regulating the oil and gas industry for failing to enforce its own rules.

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.

Colorado Democrats have introduced a bill in the State Legislature that would require hydraulically fractured oil and gas wells to be set back at least 1,000 feet from any school or residence.