A new study from University of Colorado School of Public Health professor Lisa McKenzie purports to show a link between living in proximity to oil and natural gas production with congenital heart defects. But like her 2014 study on such defects and other previous research,...
The Colorado State Senate Transportation and Energy Committee is holding a hearing today on SB 181, the newly proposed oil and gas bill that aims to drastically change how the industry is regulated in the state. Energy In Depth took a first look at the...
University of Colorado Public Health professor Lisa McKenzie’s latest attempt to connect oil and natural gas development to health risks – this time involving precursors to cardiovascular disease – produces the same results as her team’s previous research: a failure to actually link fracking to...
Earlier this week, the Denver Post took a deeper dive into the arguments for and against Proposition 112, with specific focus on the question of health and safety. Energy In Depth has been at the forefront of these issues both here in Colorado and across...
Just a few days before Colorado residents begin voting on Proposition 112 – an extreme anti-fracking measure that would impose 2,500-foot setbacks and effectively ban future oil and gas development in the state – the University of Colorado at Boulder issued a press release under the...
The Boulder Daily Camera officially endorsed Proposition 112 over the weekend, publishing an editorial that claims passing the economically devastating measure would be a net positive by addressing public health concerns, “When it comes to oil and gas development, [regulators] glibly dismiss resident concerns about...
EID has noted several times over the past few weeks that Colorado’s top environmental and health regulators have considered and addressed health and safety issues raised by anti-fossil fuel activists for some time and across multiple studies, public comments, and in the news. EID’s health...
Commerce City hosted a “study session” on Monday in which drilling opponents attempted to use long-debunked anti-fracking rhetoric to discredit hard scientific data from Colorado’s top medical and environmental regulators demonstrating oil and gas development is protective of public health. Featuring representatives from the Colorado...
For the second time in three months, an official with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) – the state’s top medical and environmental regulators – has emphasized the agency does not endorse the use of volatile organic compound (VOCs) blood tests as...
Oil and gas employees from across the state showed up in full force Monday at the most recent Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) field hearing in Greeley, Colo. The overwhelming attendance of oil and gas employees drowned out the usual ban-fracking rhetoric and...
We applaud Denver7 for listening to our criticism of their story from earlier this week and responding with a lengthier piece that seeks to provide more perspectives around the key issue of public health near oil and gas operations. Unfortunately for their viewers, Denver7’s latest...
UPDATE (4/9/18, 5:40 EST) Dr. Larry Wolk, Chief Medical Officer and Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE), has just weighed in on the latest study by Lisa McKenzie. Here’s what he had to say: This study confirms our 2017...