DENVER – Federal land managers have proposed allocating nearly 2 million acres of public land in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming for potential commercial oil shale development.The Bureau of Land Management ...

A Denver court recently decided that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service would have to reconsider placing Graham's Penstemon on the Federal Endangered Species List. A Denver court recently decided that ...

SALT LAKE CITY - President Bush's call last week for speeding up development of oil shale in the Rocky Mountains runs headlong into Colorado and Wyoming leaders, who say the environmental costs are ...

Among the many legacies of Jimmy Carter, the former U.S. president who is being remembered around the world in the days after his death, is one particularly local one. While president, Carter helped ...

The Bureau of Land Management on Friday proceeded with plans to sharply reduce the amount of land available in Colorado, Wyoming and Utah for possible oil shale leasing, and to require a ...

WASHINGTON — Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Tuesday said he was seeking an investigation of a Bush-era decision to give low royalty rates and favorable terms to energy companies that commercially ...

Shale’s next frontier is boosting recovery rates, as productivity declines across major basins and drilling efficiency gains ...

Huntley represents the Wilderness Society. On Sept. 28, The Plain Dealer ran an Associated Press story ("Senate approves spending measure") that quoted White House spokesman Tony Fratto, who believes ...

WASHINGTON - The dispute over how quickly to allow oil shale development on Western public lands flared Thursday on Capitol Hill, where a Colorado senator just introduced legislation to slow the ...

GREEN RIVER - At present, there is no commercial production of oil shale being undertaken in the United States. That may be about to change, however. The Bureau of Land Management recently finalized a ...

Covering an area of 2,778 square kilometers, the National Demonstration Zone of Gulong Shale Oil in Daqing was approved by the National Energy Administration in August 2021, with predicted geological ...

Marcellus Shale oil and gas development began in 2004 with little fanfare except for the occasional 911 calls from local residents who saw fire burning from a flare stack in a farmer's field but ...