Americans have signed millions of leases allowing companies to drill for oil and natural gas on their land in recent years. But some of these landowners — often in rural areas, and eager for quick payouts — are finding out too late what is, and what is not, in the fine print.
The House GOP and environmentalists may have found something to agree on about the Keystone XL oil pipeline: The State Department is not the best arbiter of high-stakes questions on its environmental and economic impacts.
House Republicans plan to unveil legislation as soon as tomorrow...
The Bureau of Land Management on Tuesday night held its first open house to answer questions from the public about the proposed expansion of the only strip mine in Utah. The meeting was held in the tiny town of Alton, where roughly 600 acres has been permitted by the state for mining. Now Alton...
Three 2,500 gallon vacuum trucks are sucking up water and oily muck from Sand Creek north of downtown Denver, trying to keep more of the pollution from reaching the South Platte River.
Crews contracted by Suncor Energy, which has a refinery about a mile east of the confluence of Sand...
House Republicans will continue to question the integrity of U.S. EPA's science programs at a hearing this week.
The House Science, Space and Technology Subcommittee on Energy and Environment will meet tomorrow at 2 p.m. to hear testimony from witnesses outside the agency.
No sooner did the Obama administration announce a year-plus of extra environmental review for the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline than its backers began weighing strategies to speed up a federal verdict, an effort the House GOP is set to formally join this week.
After four months of pressure campaigns and prognostication, the failure of the so-called congressional "supercommittee" to agree on $1.2 trillion in long-term spending cuts leaves energy and environmental programs in much the same position that they were after the August debt-limit deal: an...
Better or not, Wyoming’s way — always idiosyncratic in the windblown, rural grain that mixes mind-your-own-business cowboy libertarianism and fiscal penny-pinching — is getting its moment in the spotlight.
An agreement worked out this summer between the state and the Department of the...
This month's federal oil and gas lease auction will be a crucial first test in Utah of new environmental mandates implemented by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar.
Even though the 11 parcels snatched up by a pair of companies have gone through environmental analysis by the Bureau of Land...
Oil and gas drillers have bought at least 500 million gallons of water this year from cities for use in hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," along Colorado's Front Range. Now they need more.
It's the only way they'll be able to sink thousands of new wells into the Niobrara formation that...
