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Freshman Representative Jeff Hurd (R-Colo.) is sponsoring a bill that would require Bureau of Land Management field offices across the west to adopt plans that would open up more lands to oil and gas drilling.
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The announcement comes as many cities and rural communities across the Mountain West struggle with housing affordability. About half the land in the West is owned by the federal government.
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Biden has created six new monuments and expanded or restored more. He鈥檚 had a particular emphasis on protections called for by tribes.
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Colorado lawmakers are wading into the housing crisis with a proposal to free up vacant parcels of state-owned land that could be leased or sold at a discount for affordable housing projects. The proposal is part of a snowballing trend kicked off by cities utilizing city-owned parcels and has since spawned requests to the federal government to open up land for residential development.
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Top Colorado Democrats are asking President Joe Biden to declare a new national monument in the heart of the state's Rocky Mountains. The monument would be called Camp Hale - Continental Divide National Monument.
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A new report shows that Western states vary widely in how much federal public lands within their borders have been protected from extractive uses over the last decade 鈥� with some surprising discrepancies.
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The Biden administration wants Congress to increase drilling companies' royalty rates, which have stayed at 12.5% for 100 years.
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The Biden administration is starting the process of re-opening federal lands to oil and gas leasing. That comes after a federal judge ruled Biden鈥檚 across-the-board moratorium on the leases was an executive overreach.
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On the 100th anniversary of the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920, the nonpartisan group Taxpayers for Common Sense published a report Tuesday calling for an...
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If it weren鈥檛 for the snowy alpine peaks in the background, camels would look perfectly at home in the undulating yellow sand hills of Colorado鈥檚 Great鈥�