The “emissions intensity” rule requires companies closely monitor methane releases and limits allowed pollution based on how much oil and gas they produce
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Colorado House tosses some of the toughest parts of bill cracking down on air pollution permits
Clean air advocates still laud the measure as an ozone crackdown, while oil and gas industry vows to keep fighting
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Air emissions, water demands skyrocket as 72% of Colorado’s new oil and gas activity centers on the Front Range
Annual state report shows regulators approved 838 new wells in 2022, with a sharp increase on the Front Range
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Samples from Front Range oil and gas wells detect seeping natural gas, benzene and other chemicals
Colorado regulators say the subset of wells tested were known to be troubled, and many have already been plugged and abandoned
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Polis orders Colorado regulators to set new rules for oil and gas industry to sharply cut ozone by 2030
The governor’s directive also orders the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission to redouble efforts to consider health and the environment
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Colorado oil and gas companies offer $459 million to guarantee their wells are plugged eventually
The plans seek to meet new state financial requirements, but some smaller operators are hoping to put up only a fraction of the needed funds.
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Colorado’s air pollution permitting process for oil and gas, other industries may get a lot stricter
Lawmakers and environmental groups say state agencies move far too slow while ozone violations pile up, and want to dictate executive action
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Report that oil field methane emissions are down by half is wrong, Front Range cities with own pollution monitors say
Air pollution from oil and gas operations is on the wane, the industry says. But communities along the Front Range — with their own air monitors — counter that they are finding repeated spikes of methane and other pollutants. “Ground-level methane monitoring shows no decline in levels,” Cindy Copeland, an air and climate policy advisor […]
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First-in-the-U.S. rules that give oil and gas industry leeway in slashing emissions OK’d in Colorado
Colorado air regulators have adopted a sweeping set of rules to slash methane emissions from oil and gas operations, including a controversial, first-in-the nation program giving industry a freer hand in determining how to cut pollution. The “intensity program,” under which operators will have to reduce emissions by set percentages based on the amount of […]
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Oil and gas regulators dial back rules that keep industry from sticking Colorado with bill for orphan wells
Trying to balance a mandate to ensure the state is not stuck with abandoned oil and gas wells against the financial needs of the industry, Colorado regulators have issued a revised plan that has buoyed operators and left environmentalists in despair. Gone from the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission’s initial draft rule for financial […]