ELECTION: Colorado voters reject new oil and gas setback regulations

Colorado’s oil and gas industry scored a victory Tuesday when voters rejected Proposition 112, which would have imposed stricter limits on where new wells could be drilled.

Proposition 112 would have pushed new oil and gas drilling activity farther from certain open spaces, homes and other types of buildings, and waterways. That activity would have been restricted to no closer than 2,500 feet from occupied structures and areas such as parks. The existing setback regulations are 500 feet from residential properties and 1,000 feet from structures such as schools and hospitals.

“This…