By Dustin Bleizeffer
Writers on the Range
As the rest of the West rushes to meet increasingly ambitious goals to reduce carbon emissions, one state is moving in exactly the opposite direction. It’s Wyoming, which even wants to take on the coalfired generation that states such as Oregon and...
By Sara Loflin, LOGIC
Guest Commentary
The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) just finalized the nation’s strongest rules to protect people and communities living near industrial oil and gas drilling. The rules follow best scientific research and are the result of i...
By Damien Cave
© The New York Times Co.
SYDNEY » China is forcing Australia to confront what many countries are concluding: The coal era is coming to an end.
China officially has blocked coal imports from Australia after months of vague restrictions that dramatically slowed trade and st...
5,000 drilling permits are pending heading toward Jan. 15 deadline
By Judith Kohler
The Denver Post
With a raft of new oil and gas rules, now comes the tough part for companies and regulators alike. The rules kick in Jan. 15 and the industry and state will have to see which of the roughly 5,000 p...
By The Associated Press
BILLINGS, MONT. » Payments to states in the U.S. West have plummeted for oil, natural gas and coal extracted from U.S. lands after low crude prices and the pandemic slowed drilling and mining in many areas in 2020, according to federal data.
Nationwide, payments to states f...
By Jan M. Olsen
The Associated Press
COPENHAGEN, DENMARK »
Denmark has decided to end all oil and gas activities in the North Sea by 2050 and has canceled its latest licensing round, saying the country is “now putting an end to the fossil fuel era.”
The Danish Parliament voted late Thursday to e...
Oil and gas rules will aid economy and workforce
By Jeff Robbins and Dan Gibbs
Guest Commentary
Last year, Colorado passed a new Oil and Gas Law, SB 19-181, that changed the mission of the state’s regulatory agency from “fostering” the oil and gas industry to “regulating” the industry, pr...
By Julian Lee
Bloomberg Opinion
This was supposed to be a time when things were getting closer to normal for OPEC. A recovery in oil demand after the first wave of the pandemic, coupled with a deep slump in U.S. production, was meant to leave the world needing more of its members’ crude. B...
Ban ON FLARING OF OIL, Colorado regulators give initial OK By Judith Kohler The Denver Post
Under rules given preliminary approval Thursday, Colorado will be one of only two states to prohibit companies from routinely venting and flaring natural gas from well sites.
The Colorado Oil...
SAFETY
CONCERNS AMID RECESSION
By Judith Kohler
The Denver Post
Mark Schell’s family has farmed in Colorado since 1906 and even though he works as a certified public accountant, he hasn’t left that way of life behind.
About a year ago, Schell bought a 310-acre farm in Mead that he leases to som...
By Judith Kohler
The Denver Post
Environmental organizations filed a lawsuit Tuesday that seeks to overturn a plan for public lands in southwestern Colorado, saying it was approved while William Perry Pendley headed the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and a federal court has ruled that his ...
Shared from the 10/22/2020 The Denver Post eEdition
By Clifford Krauss© The New York Times Co.
HOUSTON»The once mighty oil and gas industry is flailing, desperately trying to survive a pandemic that has sharply reduced demand for its products.
Most companies have cut back drilling, laid off worke...
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By Judith Kohler
The Denver Post
Mark Schell’s family has farmed in Colorado since 1906 and even though he works as a certified public accountant, he hasn’t left that way of life behind.
About a year ago, Schell bought a 310-acre farm in Mead t...
JPMorgan Chase and other big banks should use their lending power to force cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.
By Daniel Growald, Peter Gill Case and Valerie Rockefeller
The writers are fifth-generation members of the Rockefeller family. Opinion column, The New York Times
Oct. 11, 2020
One h...
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By Eric Lipton© The New York Times Co.
PAGE, ARIZ.»For decades, waves of electricity poured from this behemoth of a power plant on the high desert plateau of the Navajo reservation in northern Arizona, lighting up hundreds of thousands of homes f...
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By Matthew BrownThe Associated Press
BILLINGS, MONT.» A U.S. government watchdog agency faulted the Trump administration Tuesday for its handling of a COVID-19 relief effort that awarded companies breaks on payments for oil and gas extracted ...
Shared from the 10/5/2020 The Denver Post eEdition By The Associated Press
CARLSBAD, N.M.» Leading oil companies in the Permian Basin are working with a Colorado-based nonprofit environmental organization to better track emissions from the industry as it tries to curb pollution.
Shell Energy,...
Shared from the 9/29/2020 The Denver Post eEdition
By Bradley Handler, Matt Henry and Morgan BazilianThe Conversation
These are very challenging times for U.S. fossil fuel-producing states, such as Wyoming, Alaska and North Dakota. The COVID-19 economic downturn has reduced energy demand, ...
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By Clifford Krauss
© The New York Times Co.
HOUSTON»As oil prices plunge and concerns about climate change grow, BP, Royal Dutch Shell and other European energy companies are selling off oil fields, planning a sharp reduction in emissions and inve...
AUGUST 19, 2020 | 1:30 PM
From its extraction and production to its management as a waste product, plastic generates planet-warming emissions at every step of its lifecycle.
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
If plastic use were a country, it’d be the fifth largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world.
Extract...
