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If passed, Colorado's Proposition 112 could bar new wells on 95 percent of land in top-producing counties. That's a huge deal in places like Weld County, where there are 22,000 active wells.
So far, only New York, Maryland and Vermont have banned fracking altogether. But none of those states have anything close to the reserves of Colorado, which is among the top six states in both oil and gas production.
Industry executives are watching with concern, fearful that it could encourage similar measures across the nation.
What's important to understand here is how close oil and gas wells have come to homes in recent years. (And how close homes have come to oil and gas wells.) Children are living and playing in the shadows of large operations.
Supporters call this a common-sense regulation meant to protect people forced to breathe fracking-related fumes and live near explosion-prone sites.
But the measure is opposed by an unlikely alliance: National oil and gas industry players, local Republicans and much of the Democratic establishment.
Folks like Gov. John Hickenlooper, a Democrat, worry about the economic fallout. Oil and gas brings in hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue. They also say there is no science to show that the proposed rule protects health any more than the current one does.
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