Early Bird Special: Wirth warns natural gas industry against missing train

Here are some of the items around Colorado that caught our attention today:

• Former U.S. Sen. Tim Wirth urged the natural gas industry to stop sitting on its hands and get involved in the national response to climate…

Nuclear boom leads to uranium claims near proposed wilderness area

A spike in uranium prices in recent years has sparked a mining-claim rush near a proposed Colorado wilderness area – a situation that would be exacerbated by a federal energy bill that may include nuclear power in a national renewable energy standard.