Love it, hate it: Conservationists split on Sherman pick to head USFS
Some conservationists praised the Obama administration’s nomination Thursday of Harris Sherman to the post of Undersecretary of Natural Resources and Environment at the U.S. Department of Agriculture....
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Coffman cites Obama’s tapping of strategic reserves in bill to promote...
What Republican Congressman Cory Gardner hopes to do for offshore oil and gas drilling in Alaska, his fellow Colorado GOP House member Mike Coffman is looking to do for onshore drilling on federal...
View ArticleSurvey says Coloradans are fed up with oil companies, want more renewables
Coloradans blame market speculation and oil companies for high gas prices, and the vast majority say the best way to bring prices down is to crackdown on market manipulation, according to a poll...
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House Committee approves Lamborn bill to open more land to oil shale exploration
Oil shale isn’t yet commercially viable but on Wednesday the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources passed Rep. Doug Lamborn’s bill to speed up its production in the West anyway. Extracting fuel...
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Lamborn’s excuses blowing in the wind while Polis sets sights on oil shale...
Asked why he was Colorado’s lone congressional holdout in calling for the extension of the wind tax credit, U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn answered his “preference is to help industry grow by reducing federal...
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Chevron giving up oil shale research in western Colorado to pursue other...
Chevron is giving up its experimental oil shale lease in western Colorado. The company is one of only three that holds a federal lease to research oil shale energy development on the Western Slope, but...
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Senate rejects Lamborn’s oil shale bill, drilling in Arctic National Wildlife...
The Senate denied a bill on Tuesday that would have authorized up to 2 million acres of public land for oil shale exploration in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming — not to mention open the Arctic National...
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Watchdog group slams Tipton, Lamborn and Coffman as ‘stooges’ for oil, gas...
A trio of bills designed to invigorate drilling on public lands has a watchdog group casting U.S. Reps. Scott Tipton, Doug Lamborn and Mike Coffman as “the Three Stooges for the oil and gas industry.”...
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Polis amendment to strip funding for oil shale passes by one vote
Colorado U.S. Rep. Jared Polis’ amendment to strip $25 million in subsidies for oil shale passed the House today on a 208-207 vote. The money will be redirected to deficit reduction. The measure failed...
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