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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 ...

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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday told the Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider Colorado’s plan for improving its air quality because ...

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 ...

A late compromise over trade-secret exemptions led to the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission on Tuesday unanimously approving requirements that Gov. John Hickenlooper and others say will ...

DENVER — Thousands of signatures that would help put a high-profile anti-fracking measure on the Colorado ballot have gone missing, according to a lawsuit filed in Denver District Court. A political ...

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, ...

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 ...