STAR’s current focus is on convincing the ECMC ( Colorado Energy and Carbon Management Commission) commissioners to deny the ...

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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... 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 ...

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 (CN) — Inching toward the November ballot, an environmental group says it has gathered enough signatures for one ballot initiative that lets cities ban fracking and another that expands safety ...

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— 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.

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 ...

WELD COUNTY, Colo. — A new oil rig will rise behind a middle school in this sprawling county in the coming months, its slender tower bearing an announcement: fracking is back. After a downturn that ...

Designed by the New York firm Tracy, Swartwout and Litchfield, the Byron White U.S. Courthouse in Denver, Colorado, pictured here, was renamed in 1994 after the newly retired supreme court justice ...