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Tea Partying Diggs Brown on global warming: ‘Dinosaurs weren’t driving cars’

By | 03.15.10 | 2:30 pm

Nothing goes over at a Tea Party forum quite like jokes about Al Gore and global warming. National Guardsman Diggs Brown, who is running for Betsy Markey’s 4th District Congressional seat, drew laughs Thursday at the Northern Colorado Tea

Colorado companies blast Murkowski’s bid to block EPA on greenhouse gases

By | 03.04.10 | 11:14 am

Colorado businesses, tourism industry and health care officials are scrambling to counteract an ongoing push in the U.S. Senate to block the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from regulating greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act.

Reports: ExxonMobil wary of FRAC Act, conflicted on climate change bill

By | 12.17.09 | 10:35 am

ExxonMobil’s acquisition of natural gas giant XTO Energy – the hot topic in the gas-field communities of Colorado’s Western Slope this week – has implications far beyond an industry typically dominated by smaller, independent operators.

According to National Public

Palin: Shun science’s ‘politicized agenda’

By | 12.09.09 | 9:16 am

One of the perks of political rock star-dom is that you get to write pretty much whatever you want and the nation’s leading newspapers will publish it. Take Sarah Palin: Judging from The Washington Post’s op-ed page, she’s now one…

Climate bill languishes ahead of Copehagen as new poll shows more doubt

By | 11.24.09 | 4:47 pm

As high pressure and sunny skies settle over Colorado for the Thanksgiving holiday – with not a lot of snow on the early-season ski slopes – much higher pressure (and a decidedly stormier sky) is in store for the Obama…

Sens. Udall and Bennet seek to have it both ways on cap-and-trade bill

By | 11.16.09 | 4:37 pm

Colorado U.S. Sens. Mark Udall and Michael Bennet with 12 other Senate Democrats signed onto a letter (pdf) urging Senate leaders weighing climate legislation to consider granting valuable credits to utilities that rely most heavily on coal. Udall and…

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…

Wirth: target coal-fired power plants with climate change cap and trade

By | 08.18.09 | 2:33 pm

Former Democratic Colorado Sen. Tim Wirth last week told Bloomberg News the cap-and-trade aspects of the House-approved climate change bill are spread too broadly across the economy instead of focusing on coal-fired power plants.

“I’m not critical of cap-and-trade,”…

Rep. Lamborn’s long-term-vision oil-shale future

By | 07.07.09 | 12:42 pm

Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-CO5, today delivered his version of the general GOP response to the Clean Energy Act. The party-wide “cap-and-tax” criticism of the bill is based on data produced by the conservative Heritage Foundation, tailored for delivery to home…