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Groups across Colorado plan for ‘International Day of Climate Action’

By | 10.19.09 | 12:59 pm

More than 60 Colorado climate actions are planned for Saturday, which has been dubbed the 2009 International Day of Climate Action by the grass-roots environmental campaign 350.org.

The acts range from the fairly mundane – ringing of church bells…

Salazar fires back at critics of his ‘difficult’ no vote on cap-and-trade bill

By | 09.05.09 | 6:05 pm

U.S. Rep. John Salazar Friday responded to a League of Conservation Voters TV ad campaign blasting him for voting no on the Waxman-Markey climate change bill by defending his record on green jobs creation and criticizing the bill…

Senate committee passes clean energy bill, environmental group unimpressed

By | 06.18.09 | 9:08 am

Colorado’s environmental community wasn’t exactly singing the praises of the Senate version of clean-energy legislation passed by the Energy and Natural Resources Committee Wednesday.

Environment Colorado issued a release saying the American Clean Energy Leadership Act of 2009 “does little or nothing to spur renewable energy in this country. The proposal risks sensitive coastal ecosystems [in Florida] to pollution and spills from off-shore drilling, while worsening global warming by opening the door to high-carbon fuels such as liquid coal, tar sands and oil shale.”

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