Oil and Gas

This week, Colorado Sun Health and Environment Reporter Michael Booth joined us to discuss a new Colorado State University study that found oil wells near Denver are releasing 142% more pollution per hour than the state average.

The Interior Department is spending around $40 million in tribal communities to plug old oil and gas wells that have caused serious pollution.

The public comment period for a proposed BLM rule on oil and gas leasing ends this Friday. Among other changes, the proposal would increase bonding requirements for cleanup costs and increase royalty rates.

Denver International Airport is one step closer to becoming "one of the greenest airports in the world," airport officials announced Wednesday.

Lance Benzel, Editor at The Colorado Sun, joined us to discuss oil and gas leaks holding up housing development along the Front Range and the latest information about the state's leading Colorado River conservation program.

A U.S. Appeals Court has struck down a critical approval for a railroad project that would have allowed oil businesses in eastern Utah to significantly expand fossil fuel production and exports.

The Colorado Sun editor Lance Benzel joined us to discuss an issue that's preventing a north Denver suburb from attracting new development.

Near the rail yards and industrial spurs on Denver's north side, predominantly low-income and Latino communities have long borne the burdens of heavy rail traffic, and a City Council member’s decade-long fight to more strictly regulate land use along railroad rights-of-way has taken on new urgency in the wake of the Uinta Basin Railway’s approval.

The Uinta Basin Railway could send 10 trains per day through remote Ruby Canyon, and Palisade orchard country.

A new survey shows most Americans support shifting to renewable energy sources like wind and solar. But many people oppose completely ending the use of fossil fuels.