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Endless summer: Ski resorts struggle to keep terrain open in new climate change frontier

By | 03.28.12 | 12:41 pm

ASPEN — Flowers are blooming along the sidewalks. Snow on the mountains is melting fast. Residents here aren’t sure whether to ski or golf. But most of them are certain of one thing: Climate change is for real.

Murkowski anti-EPA resolution comes up short in Senate vote

By | 06.10.10 | 3:36 pm

Colorado Sens. Mark Udall and Michael Bennet voted with 51 of their colleagues Thursday to defeat Republican Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s Congressional Review Act resolution seeking to block U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulation of carbon dioxide emissions as a form…

Biomass power production takes step back in N.M., forward in Colorado

By | 03.25.10 | 9:47 am

One of the potential silver linings in the dark cloud of the ongoing mountain pine bark beetle epidemic – which has ravaged more then 2 million acres of lodgepole pine trees in Colorado and Wyoming – is the possibility of…