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Guest Post: Say no to the Colorado legislature’s gimmick to gamble...

Do you feel like gambling with our state’s water and rivers? The Colorado  legislature does, and it’s a gamble we shouldn’t take. In these last...

Recording reveals oil industry execs laughing at Trump access In a...

Editor's note: This story was originally published by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, a nonprofit news organization based in the San Francisco Bay...

Oh Canada! How Canada’s largest pension fund is financing drilling along...

It’s a familiar story: A deep-pocketed country develops oil fields in a heavily indebted nation with lax environmental regulations. The locals object, claiming that...

Littwin: Hick’s longshot argument — Colorado comity actually beats Washington dysfunction

Now that John Hickenlooper has officially joined the presidential race, he has, let us say, just a few challenges to overcome. 1. Money. It should...

Guest Post: Colorado must better regulate the oil and gas industry...

Three years ago, I heard a large fracking project was coming to my neighborhood. I did some research and everything I found brought more...

Broomfield homeowners sue to stop “forced pool” oil drilling under their...

A group of Broomfield homeowners on Wednesday filed a lawsuit that challenges the nearly century-old practice that allows oil and gas companies to drill...

A ‘modern-day book-burning crusade’ alleged in Colorado Your weekly roundup of...

"In Colorado, it’s very real. A modern-day book-burning crusade is underway." That's according to Jim Duncan, director of the nonprofit Colorado Library Consortium, who has been ringing...

Backers of oil and gas drilling setbacks in Colorado lost at...

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...

Guest Post: Amendment 74 ― Deceptive, dangerous and anti-democratic

Proposition 112 has powerful fossil-fuel interests running scared. To protect their profits, they’re willing to destroy the ability of Colorado state and local governments...

Guest Post: The oil and gas tech industry votes no on...

There is not a single challenge related to the development of Colorado’s oil and gas resources that can’t be solved with the smart application...
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