Tag: local control

  IT looks like John Hickenlooper has officially broken his long losing streak. Yes, there had been signs of the old Hick recently. He told...

  DENVER -- After months of thorny, stop-and-start negotiations that in recent weeks seemed doomed to fail, Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper announced today that he...

IT HAS been a big week for the local control over oil and gas development debate in Colorado. No sooner did Gov. John Hickenlooper...

DENVER — From the Chamber of Commerce’s swank downtown offices Gov. John Hickenlooper today announced his staunch opposition to the two ballot initiatives that...

  Eli Stokols reports that John Hickenlooper will announce today that he has given up on his bid to call a special session of the...

Opportunity this election year is shrinking for the governor and legislative leaders to reach an agreement on a bill that could head off a series of ballot measures aimed at granting local authorities greater regulatory control over the oil-and-gas industry.

  THE news is now official. The Obama administration has proposed new rules that will significantly reduce carbon emissions, with coal-producing power plants clearly the...

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.

State lawmakers here working feverishly in the last days of the legislative session failed to come up with a bill that could ease the high tensions building for years around boom-time drilling and fracking in Colorado, tensions that were never likely to be eased at the capitol.

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