federal lands

Oil & gas leasing practice eliminated by Hickenlooper bill

Aug 19, 2022

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Colorado Politics

A federal-lands leasing practice critics say allows oil and gas companies to unfairly gain control of publicly owned mineral resources was eliminated by a bill sponsored by U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper that was included in President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act that became law Tuesday. A quirk in federal-land leasing law allowed oil and gas…
Colorado’s Tipton wants to open more federal land for livestock grazing

Jul 13, 2018

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Tom Ramstack

WASHINGTON – Colorado U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton recommended the government enlist help from ranchers and farmers to better protect federal lands during a congressional hearing this week. Congress is considering legislation that would open hundreds of thousands of additional acres of federal land to grazing by livestock. Much of western Colorado is federally administered public…
Pyle: Is Colorado’s oil and gas industry sitting at the table, or on the menu?

Mar 17, 2017

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Tom Pyle

There’s an old and unfortunate truth about Washington, D.C.: “If you don’t have a seat at the table, you’re probably on the menu.” For the past eight years, the Obama administration’s “keep-it-in-the-ground” policies have kept the oil and gas industry “on the menu” and stymied responsible energy development and threatened to make energy more expensive…
Methane rule issue shows divide in opinion polls

Mar 15, 2017

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Mike McKibbin

Oil and natural gas companies and their supporters continue to wage a war of words – and opinion polls – with backers of a Bureau of Land Management rule regulating emissions of methane from natural gas wells drilled on federal land, while a Colorado senator remains undecided on his stance on the rule. Earlier this…
WOTUS order could take years to resolve

Mar 14, 2017

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Mike McKibbin

A controversial federal rule designed to provide clarity for protection of America’s water resources, and now under a presidential order for change or elimination, could cause further confusion and take the rest of President Donald Trump’s term in office to be resolved, according to two Colorado State University researchers and news reports. The order was…

federal lands

Oil & gas leasing practice eliminated by Hickenlooper bill

Colorado’s Tipton wants to open more federal land for livestock grazing

Pyle: Is Colorado’s oil and gas industry sitting at the table, or on the menu?

Methane rule issue shows divide in opinion polls

WOTUS order could take years to resolve