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As a deep freeze settled in over Colorado on Valentine’s Day weekend, most Coloradans pulled on an extra blanket or sweater, turned up the thermostat, and settled comfortably inside to ride out the cold snap. But for Coloradans working in our state’s oil and natural gas fields, the frigid temperatures meant it was time to Carhartt up and get to work. Their valentine to you was a warm home and power, but it wasn’t easy to deliver. It took teams of dedicated employees, from dozens and dozens of companies, putting in long hours in extreme conditions – working tirelessly to ke...

The pace toward America’s energy future has quickened as of late, and Colorado could offer directions on where this is headed.

The pace toward America’s energy future has quickened as of late, and Colorado could offer directions on where this is headed. At stake is a changing climate and clean air against millions, if not billions, of dollars in commerce and taxes churned out by powering our lives. His first day in office, Joe Biden put America back in the Paris climate agreement. In short order, he killed the massive Keystone XL oil pipeline, and caffeinated Joe designated climate change a national security priority. More? He doubled the aim for offshore wind energy production, while moving more public land and...

Coloradans have reason to be concerned: Without new federal leases, the state would lose 18,000 jobs and place $108 million in state revenue by 2022, according to the American Petroleum Institute-Colorado. An Interior Department order issued last week placed a 60-day freeze on agency permit approvals, but the leasing “pause” for a “rigorous review of all existing leasing and permitting practices related to fossil fuel development on public lands and waters” has no timeline. “Without any timeline or direction, President Biden’s indefinite pause on oil and natural gas leasing will h...

Some conservation groups and oil and gas industry representatives have reached agreement on a joint proposal for what they say would be a first-in-the-nation rule under which companies would have to retrofit pneumatic control devices at oil and gas sites to cut methane emissions. The groups are proposing the requirement to the Colorado Air Quality Control Commission, which is scheduled to consider new rules targeting the devices at a meeting Feb 18-19.The proposal was announced in a news release this week from the Sierra Club, Earthworks and Center for Biological Diversity, which are legally ...