Energy & Oil

Sen. Harry Reid wants the rest of the country to adopt Nevada's requirement that 20 percent of its power come from renewable energy by the year...


South Dakota and Montana are enjoying the national spotlight today, as one phase of our four year national carnival winds down, readying for the...


Ninety-seven U.S. senators voted on Tuesday to stop filling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve for six months, a move they say they hope will help ease...


Nothing says Earth Day like a newspaper packed with extra circulars exhorting you to honor the day by going out and buying stuff. Here's the ultimate...


A bevy of environmental groups banded together Thursday to file four separate proposed ballot initiatives that would increase taxes on the oil and...


Get ready, folks. It's finally the waning year of the Bush administration, and they're going to go out in style. No oil field shall go untapped. No...


Presidential hopefuls Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) and Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) as well as Sen. Ken Salazar (D-CO) applaud the arrival of U.S. President George W. Bush to the State of the Union speech at the U.S. Capitol January 28, 2008 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Energy, immigration, home foreclosures and other issues affecting Colorado played important roles in President Bush's final State of the Union...


The Arizona Intake Towers at the Hoover Dam July 30, 2007 in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Arizona. The white "bathtub ring" on the rocks is from mineral deposits left by higher levels of water. A seven-year drought and increased water demand spurred by explosive population growth in the Southwest has caused the water level at Lake Mead, which supplies water to Las Vegas, Arizona and Southern California, to drop over 100 feet to its lowest level since the 1960s. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

"No Fishing From Harbor," a roadside sign warns, but the harbor is long gone.

Below, a dusty desert landscape dotted with mesquite and creosote...


Democratic Gov. Bill Ritter on Tuesday appointed prominent environmentalist Matt Baker to the Colorado Public Utilities Commission, sparking...


Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards speaks at a town hall meeting at the University of South Carolina in Aiken on Sunday, Jan. 13, 2008. (Photo: Damon Winter/NYT)

Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards on Monday said a proposed coal-fired power plant shouldn't be built in northeastern South Carolina,...


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