Mark Jaffe has been a reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer, Bloomberg News and The Denver Post. He was also previously a Paris correspondent for Businessweek.
In a decade of covering the Colorado Public Utilities Commission, I have never seen it faced with bigger challenges and seemingly so ill-equipped to cope with them.
Colorado's "forced-pooling" statute enables an oil and gas company to buy a property owner’s mineral rights even if the owner doesn’t want to sell or lease them.
While the incoming Trump administration's promises for more drilling and mining on public lands may sound like relief to fossil-fuel industries, it sounds like déjà vu all over again.