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Colorado’s first comprehensive oil and gas development plan – a new mechanism aimed at better assessing and managing the cumulative impacts of drilling – was approved by state regulators Wednesday, pa...

In Colorado, a sale of 110 low-producing oil wells illustrates a hot potato effect, and how funding remediation eventually comes from the public.

State regulators this week imposed but then suspended a $2.21 million fine for rule violations by two oil and gas companies in Rio Blanco County, including for gas and oil

Colorado's oil and gas regulator just updated its rules to incentivize the industry to clean up after itself and prevent orphan wells.

Higher bonding amounts and an expanded orphaned well program will fund the cleanup of thousands of aging sites.

"Colorado regulators on Tuesday approved a sweeping set of new financial requirements for oil and gas companies that operate within the state, completing the last major rule change mandated by a landmark drilling reform law passed by Democrats in the General Assembly three years ago."

The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission on Tuesday unanimously approved what the agency is calling the nation’s strongest rules for requiring bonding or other financial assurance to cover the

Laramie Energy, which isn’t currently drilling any natural gas wells, hopes to begin drilling in the second quarter of this year on a 65-well project about 13 miles north of

The new rules "fundamentally change how financial assurance for oil and gas activities in the state of Colorado are addressed," a commissioner said.

It’s going to be a good trip. We’ll be starting in the year 1896 and the destination will be 2021. One hundred and twenty-five years in 35…