Oil and Gas

The One Big Beautiful Bill changed the leasing process for the BLM. Now, land in Colorado will be cheaper for operators to lease, and the agency will have less discretion over the terms of the agreements.

The Trump administration declared a national energy emergency in January, hoping to spur domestic energy and mineral production. Some advocates say the administration is using the declaration as a pretense to bolster the fossil fuel industry.

More than a third of Colorado is made up of public land and controlled by agencies such as the Bureau of Land Management. Decisions about how to use that…

Garfield County’s overall property value is 9 percent higher than last year. Jim Yellico, the county assessor, said it’s all because of oil and gas.For…

Colorado is considering expanding pollution regulations across the state, and stakeholders can weigh in at a meeting in Rifle on Tuesday. In 2016,…

A team of researchers from the University of Colorado-Boulder has developed a new instrument to detect methane leaks. Oil and gas companies are required…

Wilderness Workshop has joined a lawsuit challenging the drilling of more than a hundred natural gas wells near Paonia. The Carbondale-based environmental…

The Colorado Air Quality Control Commission voted last week to increase testing for methane emissions from oil and gas development. The new rules apply…

Several environmental watchdog groups, including Carbondale-based Wilderness Workshop, are formally protesting the sale of oil and gas leases on public…

Gov. John Hickenlooper has unveiled new recommendations related to oil and gas drilling in the wake of a fatal home explosion that killed two men.…