Businesses large and small reel from virus’s ‘kick in the teeth’
Downtowns and the state’s cornerstone are under the gun from a pandemic response that necessitates curtailing economic activity. Economists predict prolonged impacts.
Natural Resources
Coal, land, workers and education: 2020 budget session wrapped
New laws will affect energy companies, utilities, a proposed massive land purchase and the state’s education system.
Gordon using private-sector advisors to help evaluate Oxy land deal
The governor has a team of informal advisors — at least three of them oil-and-gas-industry heavies — helping shape a massive land and mineral purchase from Occidental
Final budget deal: sound and fury but little change
Following contentious negotiations, the Legislature sent a budget to Gov. Mark Gordon that was pretty close to where it began.
Critic skeptical of senator’s motive in correcting DEQ letter
Bebout says the letter about Moneta Divide gas- and oilfield “was sent by my secretary and contained misinformation and I corrected her.”
