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Colorado draws 2,000-foot statewide oil and gas drilling setback. But it comes with a big “however.”
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Oil and gas companies must monitor fracking emissions as Colorado adopts first-in-the-nation rules to reduce air pollution
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Colorado oil and gas emissions rules begin to tighten, but gaps open over what is monitored, by whom and where
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Colorado regulators’ plans to require 2,000-foot buffer around drilling rekindles oil and gas wars
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Colorado regulators back 2,000-foot setback for new oil and gas drilling in “paradigm shift”
In a session Wednesday to review proposed rule changes on setbacks, four of the five Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission’s members voiced support for an extended setback
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Fight over Colorado setback rule sets up make-or-break hearing on how close is too close for oil and gas
The drawn-out battle over state rulemaking still centers on how far operations should be set back from homes and schools. But environmentalists say residents should not be “guinea pigs” while the work is done.
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Democratic lawmakers, officials from oil and gas- dependent areas of Colorado clash on first day of rulemaking
State legislators and county commissioners butted heads over the role of local governments in approving drilling locations on the first day of a six-week process
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Oil and gas does about-face as six-week overhaul of Colorado drilling regulations begins
Operators for years groused about the danger of a “patchwork” of regulations. Now they’re focused on letting local governments have control.
