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Colorado’s crackdown on methane leaks
Posted by Denver Post: Vincent Carroll on November 23rd, 2013
Denver Post: With a bold indifference to both timing and facts, U.S. Rep. Jared Polis took to the House floor this week to denounce Colorado's oil and gas regulations as toothless just one day after the Hickenlooper administration unveiled air-quality proposals for the industry that will be stricter than any in the nation -- especially in targeting methane.
Colorado has also led the nation in mandating "green completions" in drilling, baseline water sampling and disclosure of chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing,...
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Gov. Hickenlooper seizing high ground on fracking
Posted by Denver Post: Vincent Carroll on March 24th, 2013
Denver Post: Josh Fox, director of the documentary "Gasland," protests against hydraulic fracturing outside an office of Gov. Tom Corbett in Philadelphia in September. Fox's documentary has become the manifesto of the anti-fracking movement. (Matt Rourke, AP)
"I'm willing to push the political reality as hard as I can," Gov. John Hickenlooper told an audience in Durango in December, "but I think it's morally reckless to not embrace something like natural gas as a short-term transition fuel."
Morally reckless...