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 in a statement to Western Wire. The Tribe, located in southwest Colorado, develops oil and natural gas.…
Republicans and Democrats have criticized the agency’s decision to ignore victims associated with the Gold King Mine spill, which released 3 million gallons of dangerous metals like lead, cadmium and arsenic into the Animas River. Trump wants to make EPA…
Misunderstandings about the history and original intent of federal grazing law by both ranchers and federal agents is fueling tensions across the West, making the issue timely and important, she said. "We don't know our rights," she said. "But now…
When the rights of a city; such as its rights to water, property, and other resources, are constrained by county and federal governments, one must ask if property rights exist at all. Cities such as Aspen which are surrounded by federally-controlled lands, are under…
The lawsuit, filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for Utah, involves Kane County, Big Horn County, Wyo.; Chaves County, New Mexico; Custer County, Idaho; Garfield County, Colorado; Modoc County, California, and the Dona Ana Soil and Water Conservation District…
The BLM Colorado office received some 560 comments by Monday’s deadline in the case of supplementary rules the agency says it is proposing to better safeguard the public and reduce resource damage. BLM spokesman Steven Hall said the vast majority…
This Washington-centric approach to management stifles creative, collaborative solutions to competing interests that could be resolved at local, state, or regional levels without the added baggage of national political battles and federal regulatory processes. While states and local communities may…
Secretary Jewell chose to put partisan politics over people. Governor Hickenlooper began his comments at the press conference as a "celebration of balance." The taking of property rights is not an event to be celebrated and is not a victory…
One ban fracking activist is affiliated with the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), a group that has boasted that bankrupting a community as a result of a fracking ban “might be exactly what is needed.” With the campaign to ban fracking in Colorado failing…
“So count on a flood of new fee proposals. I bet they have a big backlog of fees they want to charge that they haven’t been able to implement for the last two years,” said Kitty Benzar, whose Western Slope…