Tension over energy industry oversight has sparked a rare agreement between climate activists and the oil and gas industry.
As wind energy and other cleantech projects create jobs, they meet labor shortages and community opposition.
With water use growing, arid Western states are asking for new regulations.
The plan by Extraction would have led to horizontal drilling under hundreds of acres of scenic Boulder County lands purchased with taxpayer dollars.
Effort to tighten rules on so-called forced pooling shows difficulty of reforms.
Up against a heavily Democratic Legislature, fossil fuel firms funnel cash to politicos they’ve previously ignored to win precious votes.
If OK'd, measure would be the first nationwide to require climate impact analysis in investment decisions.