{"id":1391652,"date":"2019-03-19T10:36:46","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T16:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=973290"},"modified":"2019-03-19T10:36:46","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T16:36:46","slug":"colorados-tougher-approach-to-oil-and-gas-moves-into-house-democratic-lawmakers-weigh-climate-change-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/local-news\/colorados-tougher-approach-to-oil-and-gas-moves-into-house-democratic-lawmakers-weigh-climate-change-push\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado\u2019s tougher approach to oil and gas moves into House; Democratic lawmakers weigh climate change push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State lawmakers\u2019 attempt to re-focus Colorado\u2019s regulation of the $10 billion fossil-fuel industry advanced Monday with scores of supporters and opponents packing a first committee hearing in the House on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2019\/03\/18\/colorado-local-oil-gas-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">proposed oil and gas legislation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic lawmakers also are looking at a more aggressive approach to climate change with a bill to be introduced this week that would adopt the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/unfccc.int\/process-and-meetings\/the-paris-agreement\/the-paris-agreement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Paris climate agreement\u2019s<\/a>&nbsp;goals, possibly as mandates, for reducing greenhouse gas emissions \u2014 linked to global warming \u2014 as part of Colorado law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a shift. We\u2019re not going to be promoting\u201d oil and gas extraction, House Speaker KC Becker, D-Boulder, said of the oil and gas legislation. \u201cBut they (state regulators) are still going to be providing permits\u201d for new drilling.<\/p>\n<p>These efforts to reform how Colorado handles fossil fuels \u201care related\u201d to efforts to step in, along with other states, where President Donald Trump has stepped out in fighting global warming, Becker said, calling climate change a critical issue.<\/p>\n<p>More on this story from\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2019\/03\/18\/colorado-oil-gas-climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Denver Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/colorados-tougher-approach-to-oil-and-gas-moves-into-house-democratic-lawmakers-weigh-climate-change-push\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State lawmakers\u2019 attempt to re-focus Colorado\u2019s regulation of the $10 billion fossil-fuel industry advanced Monday with scores of supporters and opponents packing a first committee hearing in the House on&nbsp;proposed oil and gas legislation. Democratic lawmakers also are looking at a more aggressive approach to climate change with a bill to be introduced this week [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1391652","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 17:23:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KKCH - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1391652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1391652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1391652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1391652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}