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Capital & Main
Capital & Main
Jennifer Oldham

Can a Single Colorado Agency Oversee Both Fossil Fuel and Clean Energy Production?

A geothermal energy plant in Tuscany, Italy. Photo: Atlantide Phototravel/Getty Images.

Colorado is racing to set up new rules to regulate climate-friendly energy industries, including carbon capture and geothermal projects, and hopes to be among the first states in the nation to achieve this.

But it is doing so using the same agency that also regulates fossil fuel production. Oil and gas interests and climate activists both worry that the agency now charged with dual oversight won’t be able to do both effectively.

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