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Colorado residents near oil and gas sites have long worried about...

Rep. Sonya Jaquez Lewis, a pharmacist and organic farmer from unincorporated Boulder County, said she can see oil and gas companies burning off excess...

I-25 billboard about Sand Dunes: “Wish you weren’t drilling here!”

A conservation group has a new billboard taking public aim at a Trump administration plan to allow drilling near the Great Sand Dunes. "Wish You...

Drilling near Colorado’s Great Sand Dunes national park? Dems for governor...

A Trump administration plan to allow oil and gas companies to drill on nearly 20,000 acres of land near Colorado’s Great Sand Dunes National...

Drilling, one mile outside Colorado’s Great Sand Dunes

Since President Donald Trump was sworn into office last year, the administration has used its “energy dominance” agenda to require states to conduct quarterly...

BLM auctions drilling rights to Pawnee National Grasslands

Lakewood — Inside the Bureau of Land Management office Thursday, a fast talking, cowboy-hat-wearing auctioneer did quick work: In three hours, buyers had purchased...

Draft local control bill so far fails to launch special legislative...

  DRAFT legislation shopped around this weekend that seeks to clarify powers held by state, county and city authorities in Colorado to regulate oil-and-gas drilling...

Pro-local control group signs up for $1.3 million in television ad...

The battle to win hearts and minds in the war over gas drilling in Colorado has heated up in the wake of a failed attempt at the capitol to draft a law giving more power to local authorities.

Littwin: The big drilling bill, stalled

No one liked the compromise bill and so it died. Will they like it any more during a special legislative session?

Loveland anti-fracking group still waiting for special election to halt drilling

They organized, collected signatures, won a ruling from a judge, but Protect Our Loveland will likely have to wait and weather more appeals before their petition for a two-year halt on fracking can be put to a vote.

‘Gasland’ fracking event in Loveland draws concerned crowd

The event underlined how the movement for and against drilling in the era of the fracking boom has become intensely local.