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Tag: methane
Colorado begins new phase of reining in emissions from oil and...
State air quality officials on Thursday adopted new oil and gas regulations that will require companies to more frequently inspect equipment for planet-warming and...
Advocates and industry gird for battle over new oil and gas...
Colorado air quality officials are poised to write new rules next week for toxic and planet-warming gases emitted from oil and gas operations.
The Polis...
Ask the Indy: In Colorado, how culpable are cows for climate...
In response to a story The Colorado Independent wrote about proposed oil and gas air emissions regulations, reader Nancy McDonald asked if we have...
Colorado will consider requiring drillers to track and report methane emissions...
Vehicles and power plants are by far the biggest producers of greenhouse gases in Colorado, contributing roughly 50% of all planet-warming emissions in our...
Colorado’s vaunted oil and gas rules are flawed and inadequately enforced...
Colorado’s much-touted regulations on emissions from oil and gas operations have not kept pace with explosive growth in oil and gas activity, resulting in...
Guest post: Proposition 112 — Colorado already has 50,000 oil...
It might be telling that on the same day former Governor Bill Ritter had a column in The Denver Post (Oct. 16), projecting “a...
In La Plata County, a heated effort to oust environmentalist commissioner
To hear La Plata County Commissioner Gwen Lachelt tell it, the breaking point was a chance meeting with Sen. John McCain.
Last May, Lachelt...
The contradictions at the heart of the fight over methane rules
In 2014, Colorado became the first state to regulate methane emissions from oil and gas drilling, with the goal of shrinking its carbon footprint...
Environmental groups intervene to defend federal methane rule
Fifteen state, regional, tribal and national groups, including one from southwestern Colorado, have filed a legal motion with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management...
Colorado’s worst methane polluter is an Arch Coal mine
Somerset, CO — If you know what to look for, you can spot the old well pads in the hills above West Elk Mine....