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Rep. Joe Neguse, of Boulder, serves on the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis at the University of Colorado Law School campus on Aug. 1, 2019. (Photo courtesy Sally Tucker)

House committee hearing on climate change sparks natural gas debate U.S. reps came to...

The first field hearing of the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis briefly turned into a cross-examination by Rep. Joe Neguse of an...
Photo of smoggy downtown Denver skyline via the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Air Pollution Control Division, Technical Services Program, Wednesday, March 6, 2019.

Colorado’s vaunted oil and gas rules are flawed and inadequately enforced Air quality continues...

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...
Silver Creek Elementary, in Thornton. Oil and gas operations are 350 feet away from the playground. (Photo by Ted Wood/The Story Group.)

Ask the Indy: Analyzing seven big questions about Colorado’s ballot fight over oil-and-gas setbacks...

Colorado Independent readers John Fielder and Daniel Montaño were among several who wanted us to look more closely at Proposition 112. If you have...
Wildgrass homes from the open space to their west.

FRACTURED: Forced pooling is not mandatory swim practice

A slightly different version of this story first appeared in the Boulder Weekly.  When James Sines shopped for homes in 2007, he thought he knew how...

The Home Front: In western Colorado, natural gas drilling is ‘on a pace similar...

"Natural gas drilling activity in western Colorado's Piceance Basin is on a pace similar to last year's as companies wait to see how a...
A Crestone Peak oil and gas operation on County Line Road in Weld County. The site contains 16 wells, 40 oil tanks, 26 combustors, 17 separators. (Photo by Ted Wood/The Story Group.)

Ask the Indy: A recap of changes coming to state oil and gas regulations...

A landmark bill that imposes new regulations on oil and gas drillers is on its way to the governor, who is expected to sign...

2018 Energy

Our "On the Issues" pages draw from speeches, interviews, campaign websites, our candidate questionnaire and prior media coverage, including our own. These pages will...
The 15-well site Woolley Becky Sosa development on County Line Road, operated by Crestone Peak Resourced. The drilling is in Weld County but the houses are in Boulder County. (Photo by Adam Stielstra.)

Backers of oil and gas drilling setbacks in Colorado lost at the ballot box,...

The defeat of Proposition 112, Colorado’s oil and gas drilling setback measure, followed a national trend. Voters in Arizona and Washington, like those in...

Jeff Robbins, state’s top oil and gas regulator, talks local control and setbacks State...

Jeff Robbins now leads the state commission he once took to court. The attorney from Durango spent two decades helping local governments regulate the...

By law, state oil and gas regulators must “foster” the industry. Democrats aim to...

Editor's note: On March 13, the Senate passed the oil and gas bill 19-15 along party lines. Democrats backed several amendments considered favorable to...
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