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Gov. Hickenlooper fails to fine company responsible for toxic Parachute spill 16 May 2013 | 09:18 pm
Yesterday, Gov. Hickenlooper’s department of public health and environment (CDPHE) announced that they won’t levy fines against Williams Cos. for spilling 10,000 barrels of natural gas and toxic waste...
Gov. Hickenlooper’s ‘order’ to oil and gas commission to review fines an empty gesture 10 May 2013 | 08:12 pm
Recently, Gov. Hickenlooper put on a masterful show of playing a politician who cares about Coloradans. Unfortunately, it was just an act to distract from the fact that Gov. Hickenlooper successfully ...
ALEC’s Most Wanted: Exposing a front group for fossil fuel interests (and other corporations) 10 May 2013 | 05:22 pm
The Center for Media and Democracy’s (CMD) Brendan Fischer and Nick Surgey uncovered an internal document from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) at the controversial organization’s meet...
Group’s new oil shale report contains wildly inaccurate claims 9 May 2013 | 06:41 pm
The Institute for Energy Research (IER), recently posted a blog about oil shale that doesn’t have its facts straight. The IER blog falsely claims that the federal government put oil shale resources ‘u...
Five things Gov. Hickenlooper did to put oil & gas industry ahead of Colorado’s health and water 8 May 2013 | 07:17 pm
Governor Hickenlooper likes to paint himself as an outsider, unfamiliar with the political process. But his recent actions to undermine public health, water safety – and basic common sense – have prov...
Western Energy Alliance wants taxpayers to front $44 billion in handouts to most profitable companies in the U.S. – billion dollar oil and gas industr... 6 May 2013 | 08:55 pm
The Western Energy Alliance has once again proved that they’ll go to any length to increase the profit margins of the billion-dollar oil & gas industry. Now they’re lobbying for $44 billion dollars in...
The Maine Players Attacking Renewable Energy: The Koch Brothers 3 May 2013 | 07:53 pm
In a new report, the Maine Conservation Alliance asks: are we debating renewable energy, or the Koch brothers’ profits?” Maine’s renewable energy standards have been the prime target of the Koch Machi...
Gov. Hickenlooper working overtime to bring toxic waste and pollution to your neighborhood! 3 May 2013 | 01:22 am
A lot’s changed since 1955 when a gallon of gas was about 29 cents. One thing that hasn’t changed are Colorado’s fines for oil and gas drilling violations – despite a huge drilling boom and large incr...
Western Energy Alliance brazenly flubs facts in new poll 2 May 2013 | 09:15 pm
Western Energy Alliance is hard at work spinning their new survey, which underscores the lengths to which they’ll go to increase the profit margins of the billion dollar oil and gas industry – even wh...
Former park rangers launch group to protect America’s national parks from irresponsible oil & gas drilling 1 May 2013 | 07:53 pm
Former park rangers have launched a new group, Park Rangers for Our Lands, to provide solutions to irresponsible plans to drill near America’s national parks. The former park rangers are advocating fo...
