In the News
Oil and water don't mix, so lose loophole
June 9, 2009
By: Susan Greene
"Trust us."
That's what oil-and-gas companies are demanding as Congress considers regulating the toxic brews they're pumping into our ground.
Oil and water don't mix, so lose loophole
June 9, 2009
DeGette, Polis introduce FRAC Act aimed at closing hydraulic fracturing ‘loophole'
June 9, 2009
By: David O. Williams
DeGette challenges DU Class of 2009 to change the world
June 6, 2009
By: Chase Squires
Gazing across the University of Denver's Magness Arena at nearly 1,000 graduating seniors June 6, U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette offered her congratulations and a hefty challenge: Change the world.
Drilling method's exemption challenged by bill
June 5, 2009
By: Michael Riley
U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette plans to introduce a bill next week that will regulate a widespread drilling technology that uses benzene and other toxic chemicals but also has been a main driver of the West's natural-gas boom.
Colo., NY reps want regulation of gas 'fracking'
June 5, 2009
By: Judith Kohler
DENVER (AP) — The push to put a widely used oil and gas drilling process under federal oversight could gain ground with a new administration in place and concerns about the development of huge gas fields in the East.
The oil-and-gas industry is gearing up for a battle over the regulation of a high-tech drilling technique that has opened up huge new fields for drilling, but that environmentalists fear could contaminate groundwater.
Legislation could change the drill for Barnett Shale
June 5, 2009
By: Dave Michaels
WASHINGTON – A drilling technique that made the Barnett Shale into the nation's most prolific natural gas field is under attack from environmental groups and could attract new regulations from a Democratic Congress.
Four years after Vice President Dick Cheney spearheaded a massiveenergy bill that exempted natural gas drilling from federal clean waterlaws, Congress is having second thoughts about the environmentaldangers posed by the burgeoning industry.
With growing evidence that the drilling can damage water supplies,Democratic leaders in Congress are circulating legislation that wouldrepeal the extraordinary exemption and for the first time requirecompanies to disclose all chemicals used in the key drilling process,called hydraulic fracturing.
DeGette speaks out after Afghanistan fact-finding trip on women's rights
May 25, 2009
By: Wendy Norris
Energy and Commerce 'emissaries' a key to House floor success for climate plan
May 22, 2009
By: Darren Samuelsohn
Thirty-five members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee gained a new title last night: global warming ambassadors.