Panel Reverses: Colorado Oil And Gas Commission Can Make Fracking Rules

(March 28, 2017, 1:48 PM EDT) -- DENVER — A divided panel of the Colorado Court of Appeals on March 23 reversed a trial court ruling that upheld a decision by the Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC), which had refused a request from residents who wanted the COGCC to promulgate a rule to “protect the health and safety of Colorado’s residents and the integrity of Colorado’s atmospheric resource and climate system, water, soil, wildlife, other biological resources, upon which all Colorado citizens rely for their health, safety, sustenance, and security” (Tamara Roske, et al. v. Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission, et al., No. 2014cv32637, Colo. App)....

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