Bloomberg: Stan Dempsey, an oil and gas lobbyist, raced from one committee hearing to another in Colorados statehouse this spring, defending the industry against an onslaught of bills.
While only one of 10 measures passed, the flurry of activity is one of several worrying signs to Dempsey and others in the industry that Colorado, an oil-patch state long seen as friendly to energy producers, is becoming a battleground over hydraulic fracturing, the drilling process fueling the nations energy boom.
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