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FILE - This Feb. 28, 2019 file photo shows a storage tank near a well pad located in a field near a housing development in Broomfield, Colo. The newly reorganized Colorado Oil and Gas Commission planned to meet Tuesday, May 21, 2019, and will later begin rewriting state rules to emphasize public safety and the environment instead of production. A new Colorado law weakens industry influence on the commission while adding experts in public health and wildlife. The law reflects increasing fears about public safety as a booming oil and gas field north and east of Denver overlaps with fast-growing communities. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

Colorado won’t halt drilling as it refocuses rules on safety

By DAN ELLIOTT - Associated Press

Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission staff members held a meeting Wednesday, May 15, 2019, in Denver to hear public comment on the first rule changes under a new law that makes protecting the public and the environment the top priorities of regulators. Environmentalists and community activists asked the commission to stop issuing drilling permits until the new rules are complete. They also urged tougher rules and demanded a bigger role for the public. Industry representatives asked a few questions or declined to speak. (AP Photo/Dan Elliott)

Colorado activists call for pause in new oil, gas drilling

By DAN ELLIOTT - Associated Press

Idaho seeks to force Texas oil company to turn over records

By KEITH RIDLER - Associated Press

In this June 9, 2014 photo, a petroleum industry worker stands on an oil and gas rig on a well pad, in New Castle, a small farming and ranching settlement on the Western Slope of the Rockies, in Colo. Four in 10 new oil and gas wells near national forests and fragile watersheds or otherwise identified as higher pollution risks escape federal inspection, unchecked by an agency struggling to keep pace with America's drilling boom, according to an Associated Press review that shows wide state-by-state disparities in safety checks. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

Wyoming considers limits on oil and gas drill rigs

Associated Press

Wyoming oil-gas supervisor Grant Black resigning

By MEAD GRUVER - Associated Press

File - In this Sept. 17, 2013, file photo, a crude oil storage tank lies on its side in flood water along the South Platte River in Weld County, Colo. Denver-based Zavanna LLC oil company probably will be sanctioned for not heeding a warning to properly secure a North Dakota well that was swamped by floodwaters and spilled oil near the confluence of the Yellowstone and Missouri rivers, a state health official said Monday, March 17, 2014. (AP Photo/John Wark, File)

Oil, gas regulators say next flood could be worse

By DAN ELLIOTT - Associated Press

File - In this Sept. 17, 2013, file photo, a crude oil storage tank lies on its side in flood water along the South Platte River in Weld County, Colo. Oil and gas regulators are discussing whether to create new rules after more than a dozen spills of petroleum products were blamed on major flooding last September. (AP Photo/John Wark, file)

Colorado weighs need for new oil rules after flood

By DAN ELLIOTT - Associated Press

Wyoming will eye distance between homes, oil wells

By MEAD GRUVER - Associated Press