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Oil and Gas commission appointments rile Senate Dems
Six members of the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission won reappointment to the seven-member body, Monday.
But that vote in the state Senate didn’t...
Wiretap: A hospital forbids a doctor from publicly defending abortion. She...
Gag order
A Washington doctor, who charged that her hospital has violated her rights by forbidding her to speak publicly in defense of abortions after...
Cities can’t ban fracking, Colorado Supreme Court rules
The Colorado Supreme Court ruled today voters cannot enact local fracking bans.
The ruling applied to two cases, one over a 2012 ban on fracking...
Joe Salazar: Hickenlooper swallowed ‘fracking fluid Kool Aid’
Democratic State House Rep. Joe Salazar has been waging a 24-hour social media attack against those who back fellow Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper’s support...
The doomed fight to fix Hickenlooper’s impotent climate plan
It was historic. It was magnificent. It was one of the finest demonstrations of diplomacy Hunter Lovins has ever seen.
And it was, of course,...
Can Colorado activists win anti-fracking measures in 2016?
This story first appeared on High Country News.
Over the past two years, plummeting natural gas and oil prices have caused energy companies in Colorado to...
New website maps fracking in Adams County
Environmental group Conservation Colorado unveiled a new website Thursday that maps all existing and planned fracking activity in Adams County.
The website, called "Coming Soon Adams County,"...
Oil and gas industry rattled by Adams County fracking pause
The Adams County Board of Commissioners voted 3-2 Tuesday to enact a six-week moratorium on new fracking development in high density urban areas.
Commissioner Eva Henry...
Forgotten: Did the State of Colorado Leave Residents with Bad Water?
Gas drilling arrived in southern Colorado's Raton Basin in the late 1990s, and along with it came heavy traffic, noise and what many locals say is...