Lepore exits Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission

Matt Lepore is resigning as director of the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission to become a strategic adviser and legal counsel for Adamantine Energy.

Effective March 2, Lepore will no longer head the commission, which he began directing in August 2012. While Lepore was leader, the COGCC strengthened the state’s oil and gas regulations, expanded staff to improve oversight of industry activities and increased the amount of regulatory data available to the public, among other accomplishments.

“Leading this agency has been the professional privilege and challenge of a lifetime,” Lepore said in a…