Colorado Western Slope

This story, a collaboration between Aspen Public Radio and Aspen Journalism, is the second in a two-part series looking at the impacts of COVID-19 across six Western Slope counties. In Part 2, we explore how vaccinations proved to be an essential tool to prevent COVID-19 deaths.

The Bureau of Land Management has been ordered to halt drilling and sales of new oil leases in the Colorado River Valley in order to consider the climate…

Fracking can produce air pollution, but many more emissions likely happen during the next stage at a natural gas well.Researchers with Colorado State…

Congressman Scott Tipton wants to introduce legislation that would exchange leases on the Thompson Divide for new drilling rights near Paonia and Rangeley…

Oil and gas companies are deciding how to respond to the BLM’s expected decision about leases on the Thompson Divide. The West Slope Colorado Oil and Gas…

The word “fracking” has come to mean drilling in general for oil and gas-- and a major concern for communities and environmentalists in Colorado and…

There isn’t enough natural gas in the Thompson Divide to make it worth drilling… that’s the conclusion of a report by consultants hired by the Thompson…