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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 ...

The push follows a decision by the state’s Supreme Court last week that ruled against two towns imposing their own local bans on the drilling practice. Environmentalists say the court decision won’t ...

As community members raise concerns about potential environmental and health harms, the state will decide whether to approve a sprawling fracking plan at the Lowry Ranch. AURORA, Colo. — Colorado’s ...

Colorado voters will directly decide the fate of fracking this November after the state legislature failed to agree on a compromise bill. Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) said he would like to see the ...

DENVER (AP) — Colorado Democrats avoided a politically costly fight over oil and gas drilling after a quid pro quo deal pitched by the state’s fracking-friendly governor prompted groups to drop their ...

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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.

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 ...

DENVER – Two Democrats joined Republicans on Monday to defeat legislation in the Democratic-controlled House that would have expanded local control over oil and gas development. House Bill 1355 – in ...

DENVER – Colorado’s loud public battle over fracking goes before the state Supreme Court on Wednesday when the justices hear arguments about whether local governments can ban the technique. Fracking, ...

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