Tag: task force
These 30 people will help reimagine Denver’s controversial school rating system
Concerns with how Denver rates its schools emerged as one of the hottest topics during last year’s search for a superintendent. Now that a...
Polis watch: Colorado Democrats have not solved their gas-patch problem
Colorado ‘local control’ politics poster boy Congressman Jared Polis is not going away and he is not satisfied.
Coloradans, at a lull in the battle over fracking, eye news...
Will the Cuomo fracking ban translate into greater currency for the Hickenlooper fracking task force?
Western Slope businesses band together, urge Hickenlooper to stop proposed pipeline
Over 100 businesses on the Western Slope wrote Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper today, asking that he stop devoting state resources to study Aaron Million's embattled Flaming Gorge pipeline proposal.
Colorado gas fracking rules still hazy in wake of guv’s task...
As oil and gas rigs creep closer to Colorado neighborhoods, it still isn't clear whether local governments can regulate the industry on their own or if they must solely stick to the state's rules.
Environmentalists blast Colorado’s new drilling task force as Trojan horse
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper's intervention in the debate over whether the state or local jurisdictions should regulate oil and gas drilling is rankling environmentalists who, two days earlier, called him out for making misleading statements on groundwater contamination.
Ritter touts rafting deal, sinks 24 competing ballot measures
Gov. Bill Ritter Tuesday announced an agreement to end the dispute between two commercial rafting outfitters and a private landowner along Colorado’s Taylor River...
Levy, Schwartz, White, Looper to serve on Ritter’s carbon capture task...
Gov. Bill Ritter Wednesday announced the formation of a Colorado Department of Natural Resources task force to tackle “complex legal, regulatory and policy issues”...