oil

The Utah rail project could result in a daily procession of trains carrying crude oil through sensitive Colorado River watersheds and the Denver metro area.

Colorado leaders are asking the feds to put the brakes on a proposed Utah railway that could send up to five oil trains per day through central Denver and other sensitive areas along the Colorado River watershed.

Colorado leaders signaled their intent to take a more aggressive approach to cutting ozone pollution from the oil and gas industry.

The lawsuit alleges that the Bureau of Land Management failed to take a "hard look" at the impact ConocoPhillips' drilling project will have on the environment.

Bending to the economic interest in exploiting Alaska's petroleum-rich North Slope, the move undercuts a Biden campaign promise to stop new oil drilling on federal lands.