DENVER (AP) — Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper said Wednesday that he won’t call a special legislative session seeking to grant communities more control over Colorado’s booming oil and gas industry.
The announcement comes after months of negotiations between the Hickenlooper administration, the energy industry, and environmentalists. The goal was to try to stave off ballot measures that would restrict fracking and, the energy industry has argued, damage the state’s economy.
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