Tag: local control
The fracking local control compromise that never was
Local control measures to give communities more power over who fracks where are more likely to hit ballots this fall then ever now that a last-minute compromise effort at the state capitol has fallen apart.
Wiretap: The mom pay gap is real
Wage discrimination is happening and it particularly affects women with children and women of color.
Guv signs budget; local-control ghost bill makes racket; lots of bills...
This year's "long bill" includes more money for public safety, $144 million for flood and wildlife recovery and $100 million to make higher education in the state more affordable.
Duran closing-time bar bill draws bipartisan laughs, support
Let the bars stay open late, or close early, so long as the community of people who live around the bars make the decision.
How close is too close? Proposed law would increase oil and...
Colorado Democrats have introduced a bill in the State Legislature that would require hydraulically fractured oil and gas wells to be set back at least 1,000 feet from any school or residence.
Shell’s natural gas play in Colorado raises issues of local versus...
For decades, Royal Dutch Shell – Europe’s largest energy company – has been known in Colorado as the king of oil shale research, spending an estimated $200 million on an experimental and controversial extraction process that has yet to be proven commercially viable. But Shell and its American subsidiaries have increasingly been moving into natural gas drilling in the United States, including a well permit pulled in southern Colorado that has touched off a firestorm of debate over state versus local control of drilling operations and just how much public input should be allowed.