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  By Cathy Bussewitz and Martha Irvine The Associated Press ARLINGTON, TEXAS » At a playground outside a North Texas day care, giggling preschoolers chase each other into a playhouse. Toddlers scoot by on tricycles. Just uphill, Total Energies is pumping for natural gas. The French energy g...

By Lucas High BizWest Homebuilders must now take into account the locations of plugged and abandoned oil and gas wells when working in Broomfield. The City Council, on an 8-1 vote Tuesday, approved a measure that requires a 250-foot reverse setback between plugged wells and residential developmen...

By Judith Kohler The Denver Post A showdown that has been building for several years on Colorado’s High Plains could come to a head as cities and counties take aim at trying to make room for two of the state’s major industries: home building and oil and gas. The state recently approved new buffer...

Weld Co. couple’s house is demolished, farm dug up to clean contamination after leak By Judith Kohler The Denver Post For years, Julie and Mark Nygren have hosted school children on field trips to their farm near Johnstown. But recent visitors to their property saw what looked more like a strip m...

  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...

Oil, gas commission OKs new regulations By Judith Kohler The Denver Post After delays caused by the pandemic and a nearly full change in members, the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission on Monday unanimously approved a broad swath of new rules seen as some of the strictest in the...

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...

Shared from the 10/20/2020 The Denver Post eEdition 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...

Shared from the 10/30/2019 The Denver Post eEdition By John Aguilar
The Denver Post The federal investigation into the 2017 explosion that killed two people and destroyed a home in Firestone determined the likely cause was a natural gas leak through a pipeline that had been severed during cons...