The Colorado Independent

Activist Biggers fights uphill battle against dirty coal

By Mike Lillis | 02.10.10 | 9:17 am

Jeff Biggers, a civil rights activist and cultural historian, watched helplessly a dozen years ago as the hollers of Eagle Creek, Illinois — a corner of the Shawnee National Forest and his family’s home for roughly 200 years — were blasted away, the forested hills bulldozed by companies harvesting the lucrative coal seams underground — a scene from Avatar playing out before the movie was made.

Activists look to transform Colorado power grid one co-op election at a time

By David O. Williams | 01.26.10 | 8:52 am

Conservationists appear to be taking a more subtle approach to reforming the fossil-fuel-fixated ways of Colorado’s rural electric associations (REAs) this legislative session, introducing a bill that would daylight the co-op’s board of director elections, but not offering much more in terms of transformative legislation.

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

By John Tomasic | 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…

Keeping Energy’s Golden Goose from Becoming a Golden Noose: Part One

By Jim Spencer | 10.29.07 | 9:50 am

Buck McVeigh has a bumper sticker that he uses in the presentations he makes as administrator of Wyoming’s Economic Analysis Division. The bumper sticker says, “Please, God, give us one more energy boom. We promise not to screw it up…