On drilling, Colorado towns get split legal news

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DENVER (AP) — Colorado cities trying to set local rules for oil and gas drilling got mixed legal messages Thursday.

In Longmont, city officials learned that state regulators, the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, would drop a lawsuit challenging the city’s local drilling regulations.

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