Posts Tagged Scott Tipton

House approves controversial hydropower bill

By Troy Hooper | 03.08.12 | 1:21 pm | More from The Colorado Independent

The House approved U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton’s bill to streamline small hydropower development processes for canals and ditches today. More…

Congressman Tipton calls campaign violation an accident

By Troy Hooper | 03.05.12 | 12:22 pm | More from The Colorado Independent

ASPEN — Before a fireside chat with a youthful crowd of skiers and snowboarders, U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton, R-Colo., downplayed his staff’s recently disclosed violation of House rules. More…

Chevron gives up on Colorado oil shale project

By Troy Hooper | 02.29.12 | 5:16 pm | More from The Colorado Independent

Chevron is giving up its experimental oil shale lease in western Colorado.
The company is one of only three holding a federal lease to research oil shale development in Colorado but officials say they would rather pursue other projects.
“Chevron has notified the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the More…

Lamborn’s excuses blowing in the wind while Polis sets sights on oil shale ‘boondoggle’

By Troy Hooper | 02.15.12 | 4:03 pm | More from The Colorado Independent

Asked why he was Colorado’s lone congressional holdout More… in calling for the extension of the wind tax credit, U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn responded that his “preference is to help industry grow by reducing federal regulations and mandates as opposed to carving out special interests in the tax code.”
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Colorado congressional delegation pushes for wind energy tax credit

By Troy Hooper | 02.08.12 | 3:55 pm | More from The Colorado Independent

Eight of Colorado’s nine congressional delegates are calling for the extension of the federal wind production tax credit to be added to the nation’s pending payroll tax-reduction package. More…

Obama’s push for ‘clean energy’ elicits partisan reaction from Colorado lawmakers

By Troy Hooper | 01.25.12 | 5:46 pm | More from The Colorado Independent

President Obama’s call to increase domestic energy production More… Tuesday received a rosy reception from Colorado’s lefty lawmakers but was all but ignored by its conservative congressional delegation still smarting from the commander-in-chief’s recent blocking of the Keystone XL oil pipeline.

Senate shelves Internet piracy bill following Web protest

By John Tomasic | 01.20.12 | 1:24 pm | More from The Colorado Independent

The U.S. Senate has postponed voting on the controversial anti-online piracy Protect IP Act (PIPA), the upper chamber’s version of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), which was pushed hard by entertainment corporations over the last two years but shelved in the House this week after a massive opposition movement More…

Colorado GOP swing-district candidates dodge questions about ‘personhood’

By John Tomasic | 01.12.12 | 5:22 pm | More from The Colorado Independent

Federal presidential-election-year campaigns are heating up in Colorado now that the boundaries of the state’s congressional districts have been updated. Yet so far, Mike Coffman and Scott Tipton More…, the Republican representatives of new, more competitive sixth and third districts, have yet to articulate for the record their stances on