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BLM’s planned lease sale of 100,000 Colorado acres for drilling prompts...
The Bureau of Land Management’s proposal to auction approximately 100,000 acres of federal public lands in northern Colorado for oil and gas drilling has...
Boulder County’s new oil and gas regulations, explained
The Boulder Board of County Commissioners voted unanimously Thursday to approve new oil and gas regulations aimed at protecting unincorporated county residents from health and...
Boulder residents: Ban fracking, stricter drilling regs aren’t enough
With the county’s five-year ban against fracking set to expire in May, the Boulder County Board of Commissioners is considering a long list of...
More than 500 oil and gas spills reported in 2016, data...
Oil and gas companies in Colorado reported at total of 509 industry-related spills in 2016, a new report finds. That's down from the 615 spills reported...
Lafayette City Council kills “civil disobedience” clause of Climate Bill of...
Lafayette City Council last night voted against the “civil disobedience” clause in its community Climate Bill of Rights, the most contentious piece of a...
Q&A: Why the Colorado health department says fracking’s risk to health...
Three weeks ago, University of Colorado researchers published a study linking diagnoses of a certain kind of blood cancer to the likelihood of living...
Broomfield votes down fracking moratorium, praises driller
Broomfield City Council last night struck down a proposed six-month moratorium on fracking by a vote of 6-3, ending a lengthy and contentious public...
Lafayette’s Climate Change Bill of Rights: A small town grapples with...
The absence of three of its seven members Tuesday evening prompted the Lafayette City Council to postpone its vote on a controversial proposed Climate...
Controversial Broomfield fracking moratorium vote postponed
After a lengthy and occasionally emotional meeting that drew more than 500 people, a divided Broomfield City Council decided Tuesday night to wait until...
Lafayette’s proposed Climate Bill of Rights would protect protest against oil...
Lafayette is eyeing a citywide policy that would codify residents' right to a healthy climate — and to defend that right with civil disobedience....