Diana Degette

Exxon Reserves Right To Back Out Of Gas Deal If FRAC Act Passes

Reuters | Posted 12.17.2009 | Denver


Exxon would be able to walk away from the deal if U.S. lawmakers make hydraulic fracturing "illegal" or "commercially impracticable," according to the...

Anthem Blue Cross And Blue Shield Of Colorado Workers Fed Up With Being Demonized, Start 'I Exist' Campaign

Denver Business Journal | Bob Mook | Posted 12.11.2009 | Denver


Workers at Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Colorado are mad as heck and they're not going to take it anymore. Employees for Colorado's largest...

Diana DeGette Targeted By Conservative Groups For Standing Up To Stupak

The Hill | Michael O'Brien | Posted 11.17.2009 | Denver


Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) suffers from "religious bigotry" for suggesting religiously-affiliated groups should not take part in the healthcare deba...

Some Dems Vow To Block Final Health Bill If Anti-Abortion Amendment Stays

The Plum Line | Alec MacGillis | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics


In a move that will intensify the coming war over how to treat abortion in the health care bill, more than three dozen House Dems have signed a letter...

Tearing Down the Barriers to Competition

Rep. Diana DeGette | Posted 10.29.2009 | Denver


Rep. Diana DeGette

Potentially egregious anti-trust violations in the insurance industry should not be permitted, and the government should be given the power to protect the public from harmful behavior that drives up prices.

Ned Prather, Garfield County Man Allegedly Poisoned By Fracking Fluid, Waiting For Decision From State

Glenwood Springs Post Independent | John Colson | Posted 10.15.2009 | Denver


DE BEQUE, Colorado -- A Garfield County man claiming he was poisoned by contaminants from a natural gas drilling operation wants to know what state re...

Natural Gas Documentary Affects Garfield County Commissioners On Federal Legislation (VIDEO)

The Colorado Independent | David O. Williams | Posted 10.13.2009 | Denver


GLENWOOD SPRINGS -- Everyone was a film critic Monday at a somewhat tense screening of the new anti-gas-drilling documentary "Split Estate" for the Ga...

Diana DeGette The Leading Force Behind Controversial Legislation Expanding Protected Lands

The Colorado Independent | David O. Williams | Posted 10.07.2009 | Denver


For a decade now, Democratic U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette of Denver has been fighting an uphill battle to vastly increase the acreage of Colorado's public ...

Natural Gas Industry Executives Come Out In Favor Of More Trasparency

The Colorado Independent | David O. Williams | Posted 10.05.2009 | Denver


The oil and gas industry is starting to see some cracks in its to-date united front against federal oversight of the common drilling practice known as...

Fracking Proves Dangerous In Pennsylvania Case

David O. Williams | Posted 11.22.2009 | Denver


ProPublica Monday reported environmental officials were scrambling to clean up 8,000 gallons of a "potential carcinogen" manufactured by Halliburton a...

Conyers Introduces Bill to End Health Insurer's Anti-Trust Exemption

David Dayen | Posted 11.17.2009 | Home


David Dayen

The concentration of the health insurance market among regional monopolies leads to higher costs for consumers, almost by definition.

Western Slope Politicians Squabble After Poll Shows Support For FRAC-act

The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel | Gary Harmon | Posted 11.16.2009 | Denver


Voters in Colorado's 3rd Congressional District a month ago favored legislation that would require the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate hyd...

Six Appeal: The Case for Health Reform in Six Easy Words

Larry Borowsky | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics


Larry Borowsky

Those were the broad themes U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette discussed at her town hall in Denver last Saturday, explaining the benefits of health-care reform. Six words: More competition. Lower costs. Guaranteed rights.

Leadville Contaminated Pipeline Bill To Return To House Floor, Dems Control Schedule

The Colorado Independent | Katie Redding | Posted 11.15.2009 | Denver


LEADVILLE -- A long overdue environmental clean-up bill that would see industrially contaminated water evacuated from the Leadville Mine Drainage Tunn...

Colorado Democrats Already Taking Sides In Democratic Primary

The Denver Post | Michael Riley and Lynn Bartels | Posted 11.13.2009 | Denver


The Democratic primary contenders in the U.S. Senate race are furiously trying to line up supporters across the state, creating dividing lines at all ...

Proof that Diana DeGette actually met with voters at a healthcare town hall

Westword | Westword | Posted 11.08.2009 | Home


Even after Congresswoman Diana DeGette announced a slew of in-person healthcare town halls to supplement a previously scheduled teleconfere...

Safe Drinking Water Act Could Backfire: COGCC Chief

The Colorado Independent | David O. Williams | Posted 09.12.2009 | Denver


DENVER -- When it comes to the safety of hydraulic fracturing- the "stimulating" of natural gas wells with high-pressure injections of water, sand and...

The Politicization of Sex and Reproduction

Rep. Diana DeGette | Posted 03.07.2009 | Politics


Rep. Diana DeGette

Instead of policies based on extreme ideology, we need to start a new dialogue about reproductive and sexual health that is based on sound, science-based public policies.

At Last, Prevention First

Cristina Page | Posted 02.14.2009 | Politics


Cristina Page

Medical experts continually warned us during the Bush years that the abstinence-only approach would sow the seeds of ignorance in teenagers. Those seeds are finally bearing fruit.

Support Obama for Women

Rep. Diana DeGette | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics


Rep. Diana DeGette

We must continue our work now to unite the party behind Obama to defeat John McCain. For too long, McCain has avoided the scrutiny from women that his record deserves.