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Environment/Energy

Colorado begins new phase of reining in emissions from oil and...

John Herrick -
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...
Patrick Murphy, Boulder County Public Health employee, uses a FLIR infrared camera to check for gas leaks at a Crestone operating well pad in eastern Boulder County. (Photo by Ted Wood/The Story Group)
2018 Ballot Measures

Advocates and industry gird for battle over new oil and gas...

John Herrick -
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...
Environment/Energy

Ask the Indy: In Colorado, how culpable are cows for climate...

John Herrick -
In response to a story The Colorado Independent wrote about proposed oil and gas air emissions regulations, reader Nancy McDonald asked if we have...
Patrick Murphy, Boulder County Public Health employee, uses a FLIR infrared camera to check for gas leaks at a operating well pad in eastern Boulder County. (Photo by Ted Wood/The Story Group.)
Environment/Energy

Colorado will consider requiring drillers to track and report methane emissions...

John Herrick -
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...
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.
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Colorado’s vaunted oil and gas rules are flawed and inadequately enforced...

Daniel Glick, The Story Group -
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...
2018 Ballot Measures

Guest post: Proposition 112 — Colorado already has 50,000 oil...

Greg Dobbs -
It might be telling that on the same day former Governor Bill Ritter had a column in The Denver Post (Oct. 16), projecting “a...
Environment/Energy

In La Plata County, a heated effort to oust environmentalist commissioner

Kelsey Ray -
To hear La Plata County Commissioner Gwen Lachelt tell it, the breaking point was a chance meeting with Sen. John McCain. Last May, Lachelt...
A BLM intern works to identify idle oil wells and urge operators to either put them back in production or plug them permanently. Abandoned oil and gas wells can be pathways for methane to leak into the atmosphere. (Photo courtesy of Bureau of Land Management)
Environment/Energy

The contradictions at the heart of the fight over methane rules

Cally Carswell, High Country News -
In 2014, Colorado became the first state to regulate methane emissions from oil and gas drilling, with the goal of shrinking its carbon footprint...
Environment/Energy

Environmental groups intervene to defend federal methane rule

Kelsey Ray -
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...
Uncategorized

Colorado’s worst methane polluter is an Arch Coal mine

Kelsey Ray -
Somerset, CO — If you know what to look for, you can spot the old well pads in the hills above West Elk Mine....
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