Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Colorado likely will need to rewrite its plan to reduce ozone pollution after a federal appeals court this week determined it was illegal for the state to ...

Freshwater use in oil and gas drilling has come under scrutiny in Colorado as the state faces a historic drought. On Wednesday, March 12, state regulators announced new rules that will require ...

In the middle of the longest-running drought in more than a thousand years, Colorado energy companies diverted rising volumes of the state’s freshwater resources for fracking, a new analysis shows.

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Colorado activists attempting to effectively ban hydraulic fracturing, commonly referred to as “fracking,” are pushing a new campaign labeled “Yes For Health and Safety Over Fracking,” in which they ...

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Gov. Hickenlooper’s Oil and Gas Task Force was an exercise in corrupt politics to stall the ultimate ballot initiative of banning fracking in Colorado. Last August, Gov. Hickenlooper, with the help of ...

The anti-fracking folks are trying a clever new strategy in Colorado. Instead of banning fracking, they just make it impossible. In fact, they make nearly all oil and gas development and production ...