DENVER — Natural gas industry groups on Tuesday urged the Environmental Protection Agency to limit the scope of an upcoming study on the effects...
by Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica As debate over natural gas drilling in the Marcellus shale reaches a fever pitch, state and federal authorities are ...
An early-August accident at a newly dug oil well in Assumption Parish, Louisiana, ended when sand buried the structure. Millions of dollars in damages are being tallied, and two class-action suits have been filed.
Cows and ditches are not a good mix, says Bayfield rancher Ross Gosney. So when he went to his summer pasture one day and saw a trough cut in the e...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Sarah Palin can take down the fence. Palin's neighbor of three months on Wasilla's Lake Lucille, author Joe McGinniss, is pa...
The U.S. Energy Information Administration's Annual Energy Review 2009 was released in August, and there are two aspects of the report that will seem like qualified environmental victories.
HARRISBURG, Pa. — More than two years after the start of a natural gas drilling boom, Pennsylvania is making public a complete list of the chemi...
Hickenlooper, Denver's incredibly popular mayor, doesn't have the race locked up on the West Slope. On top of the issues they'll be looking at is his stance on oil and gas development.
BP is stripping its logo from trucks and machinery in the Colorado town of Durango in response to what a spokesman is calling "routine abuse from the ...
WASHINGTON — A look at how much members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee received in political contributions from oil and gas interest...
BP in the coming months may have to look to its lucrative natural gas fields in southwestern Colorado to recoup the massive financial hit it's taking ...
Fracking. It's a word you probably hadn't heard a year ago. This week the EPA had to postpone a hearing on the subject because of concerns the venue might not be able to accommodate the 8,000 citizens expected to show.
Switching to natural gas is no more attractive an alternative for most American motorists right now than switching to corn-based ethanol or electric power. And until it is, expect natural gas and oil prices to stay disconnected.
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — State oil and gas regulators are about to vote on new rules that would require energy companies to disclose the chemicals used ...
Last Tuesday, not long before Harry Reid unveiled a pared-down energy bill to the Senate, Representative Xavier Becerra (D-Calif.) was the guest of ho...
Last week, the Colorado Independent reported on a letter from Colorado Republican legislators to the EPA advising the agency not to "stick its nose in...
In perhaps the most extreme step yet, Republicans in Colorado are demanding the Environmental Protection Agency never regulate fracking, "no matter what a two-year EPA study of the process reveals."
India graciously hosted the Burmese Dictator Than Shwe this week, raising the question as to why the world's largest democracy would welcome one of the world's worst dictators, a man associated with crimes against humanity.
FORT LUPTON, Colo. - They say they are living with a ticking time bomb. Karen Androvich and her husband have so much methane gas in their water their ...
From Texas to Wyoming to Pennsylvania, a gusher of environmental rules is facing the natural gas industry in the coming months and years, putting Colo...
Even before BP capped the oil spill, the Washington Post declared a loss for environmentalists. It's been three months and we haven't seen a cap on carbon, what gives?
Are downstream city dwellers immune from fracking chemicals in their water supplies? Take action now to ask for environmental impact studies prior to fast tracking.
The Sweeter Theater Company in New York commissioned me to write a play -- a modern, "green" version of Henrik Ibsen's Enemy of the People.
According to Shell Oil's Marvin Odum, converting from coal to gas fired electricity plants would eliminate 50% to 70% of current CO2 emissions.
DENVER — A western Colorado coal mine received approval Thursday to drill wells on roadless forest land to vent methane. The drilling at the El...
