April 11, 2017 Radical anti-fracking groups use kids as ruse to sue Colorado energy regulators The media has described the petitioners in the case, aged 13 to 16, as “a group of teenagers,” “six underage plaintiffs,” “some Colorado children.” “Colorado Appeals Court Sides…
April 4, 2017 Trump’s DOI Secretary ends coal moratorium, opens way for oil and gas renaissance “Secretarial Order 3348 overturns the 2016 moratorium on all new coal leases on federal land and ends the programmatic environmental impacts statement that was…
April 2, 2017 Fossil Fuels Ascending: BLM Acting Director puts renewables on back burner President Trump this week ordered BLM to “expeditiously” rescind its hydraulic fracturing regulations and review its methane venting and flaring rule. Zinke also ended…
February 7, 2017 Colorado’s Southern Ute tribe backs repeal of BLM ‘methane rule’ Existing regulations “already protect air quality” and the BLM’s methane rule should be abolished, Clement Frost, chairman of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe, said…
January 25, 2017 Trump orders progress on Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines For Keystone XL, the Obama administration’s own State Department reviewed the project multiple times and concluded that the pipeline would pose negligible environmental risk and not…
December 20, 2016 U.S. shale oil, natural gas trump Russia’s power play The geopolitical implications (never mind the domestic economic benefits) of expanding U.S. shale capabilities should be obvious. Not only would increasing shale output keep…
December 18, 2016 Attack on Western Colorado: Obama denies Jordan Cove LNG Project “…the FERC denial is not based on environmental concerns. The Jordan Cove project has exceeded the environmental regulations. So, the federal government had to…
December 18, 2016 Standing Rock: Native sovereignty or a future of economic hopelessness Only 3 percent of its length would need federal approval, and in those places the pipeline was designed to run next to existing utility…
December 17, 2016 To delight of enviros, Obama slaps clean-power Glen Canyon Dam with expiration date Obama’s ‘midnight rules-making’ marathon is unlikely to let up prior to the inauguration of President-elect Trump a month from now, so both Congress and…
December 12, 2016 Anti-fracking mythology busted by real-world science Despite their hysterical claims and protestations to the contrary, the existing scientific evidence shows hydraulic fracturing processes do not pose a systemic impact on…
