DENVER (AP) — Western state officials took turns bashing the federal government at a congressional field hearing on proposed nationwide drilling rules on hydraulic fracturing.
But Democrats on the panel Wednesday, along with some Colorado environmental activists, insisted that health concerns around the drilling procedure known as fracking mean there is a need for common health and safety standards
DENVER (AP) — Colorado regulators are reviewing a draft report on Wyoming groundwater pollution and a possible link to hydraulic fracturing.
The director of the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, Dave Neslin, says the commission has been following the case in Pavillion, Wyo
May 18, 2011 Wyoming’s Hoback River is listed as one of America’s “most endangered” in a report released Tuesday by American Rivers. Ten waterways are featured each year - they aren’t the “most polluted,” but rather rivers that face pollution risks. The Hoback is number seven because of plans for hydraulic fracturing, called “fracking,” near the river’s headwaters.
