U.S. Senate candidate and state Rep. Ron Hanks (R-Cañon City) criticized Minority Leader and U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), as well as U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO), for calling the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol an insurrection.
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CO Passes ‘Strongest in the Nation’ Oil and Gas Rules, Enviro Groups Worry They Are Still ‘Inadequate’
Yesterday the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC), the state’s regulatory body for oil and gas activities, passed a major reform of rules to reduce risks posed by orphaned wells in the state, the first such Colorado reform in 28 years.
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Fact Check: Oil and Gas Industry Downplays Problem of Low-Producing Wells
Dan Haley is president of the Colorado Oil and Gas Association, a group representing the state’s oil and gas industry. Last week, Haley appeared on Kim Monson’s Colorado KLZ 560 radio show to discuss the state revising its oil-and-gas-well bonding rules and low-producing wells.
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Garfield & Weld Counties Have Spent Nearly $2 Million Fighting Oil & Gas Pollution Regulations Since 2019
Over the past three years, Garfield and Weld Counties, in northern Colorado, spent nearly $2 million total to fight government regulation on oil and gas pollution, the bulk of it doled out by Garfield County to lobbyists and lawyers, according to an analysis of county budgets by environmental groups and the Colorado Times Recorder.
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Debate Questions on Cheney Censure and Jan. 6 Insurrection Split GOP Senate Candidates
At a debate for Republican U.S. Senate candidates in Evergreen Tuesday, candidates were divided over whether it was appropriate for national Republicans to censure U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) last month.
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Leading GOP Senate Candidate Won’t Tell Fellow Election Conspiracists to Stop Short of Violence
Republican Senate candidate and state Rep. Ron Hanks (R-Cañon City) is refusing to denounce violence as a last resort if election conspiracists don’t get their way, describing it as one of the “four boxes of liberty.”
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CO Sen. Hopeful: Biden ‘More Interested in Transgender Than the Taliban,’ Calls U.S. Military ‘Weak’
Eli Bremer, a Colorado Springs Republican vying for the state’s U.S. Senate seat, has verbally attacked trans women who serve in the U.S. military and who participate in sports — both collegiately and in the Beijing Olympics — repeatedly over the last several weeks.
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CO Election-Fraud Conspiracist Joe Oltmann Endorses Ron Hanks for Senate
Prominent Colorado election fraud conspiracist Joe Oltmann promised to endorse state Rep. Ron Hanks (R-Cañon City) for U.S. Senate yesterday during Hanks’ appearance on Oltmann’s podcast, Conservative Daily.
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43% of CO Oil and Gas Companies Exclusively Own Inactive, Leaky Wells
Nearly all of Colorado’s oil and gas companies own nonproductive, unprofitable oil wells, which leak climate-change-causing pollutants, because it’s cheaper than plugging and retiring them, say environmentalists.
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‘People Filled With Hate’ Will Do ‘Horrible Things’ if Roe Is Overturned, Warns Denver Bishop
At the Beacon of Hope Gala in Aurora Saturday night, Denver Archbishop Samuel Aquila spoke about the dangers reproductive rights activists pose if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns the landmark abortion case Roe v. Wade (1973) this year.