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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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  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...
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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...
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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...
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  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 ...
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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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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...
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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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Shared from the 10/11/2020 The Denver Post eEdition 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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Shared from the 10/7/2020 The Denver Post eEdition 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 ...
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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,...
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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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Shared from the 9/22/2020 The Denver Post eEdition 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...
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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...
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Shared from the 9/6/2020 The Denver Post eEdition By Judith Kohler Smoke from the Pine Gulch Fire fills the air around oil and gas development in the Roan Plateau on Aug. 24 in Grand Junction. The two major party contenders for president have very different views on the direction the U.S. shou...
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Shared from the 9/2/2020 The Denver Post eEdition   By Julian Lee
Bloomberg Opinion Since Monday there will be just one oil company in the Dow Jones Industrial Average — Chevron Corp. The removal of Exxon Mobil Corp. from the index after an uninterrupted presence since 1928 shouldn’t come as...
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Shared from the 8/20/2020 The Denver Post eEdition By Judith Kohler
The Denver Post Environmental organizations are suing to scrap a management plan that would allow oil and gas drilling across public lands in southwestern Colorado. Six environmental groups filed the lawsuit in U.S. District ...
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