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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 ...

Cities of Longmont and Fort Collins had passed laws to ban or delay fracking. — -- The Colorado Supreme Court ruled today against two cities' attempts to limit fracking, saying the legislation ...

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 ...

DENVER (AP) Colorado's loud public battle over fracking went before the state Supreme Court on Wednesday as the cities of Longmont and Fort Collins tried to persuade the justices that local ...

DENVER— A federal appeals court ruled today that Colorado’s rule allowing unlimited amounts of air pollution from drilling and hydraulic fracturing for oil and methane gas without a permit is illegal.

That the environmental left is relentless is not news, but the current machinations on policies intended to suppress fossil energy production in Colorado are fascinating. Under a compromise being ...

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 ...

Movie"When a fracking site is moved from a White neighborhood to a BIPOC neighborhood, a concerned mother tries to stop it." Fracking the System is a political thriller documentary from the front ...

DENVER (AP) — Colorado’s Democratic governor forged a deal to stop dueling proposals on oil and gas drilling Monday, avoiding a messy ballot fight that had his party concerned about political ...

When Randy Willard moved to southeast Aurora 10 years ago, he was surprised that the oil and gas company, Civitas, was trying to frack near the Aurora Reservoir and his new home. "We got a letter just ...

A man who was critically injured while working at a fracking site in northern Colorado, Steve Straughen, won $30 million in federal court this month, but his attorney says he'll only receive about ...