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Posts Tagged greenhouse gas

Snowless ski race helps connect dots between climate change, real problems

By | 05.07.12 | 9:21 am

Gnarly terrain greeted a group of climate change activists in Aspen over the weekend.

Senators bundle House bills into WEST Act to expedite energy exploration, weaken EPA

By | 05.01.12 | 10:30 am

Some the most anti-environmental legislation to pass the House has been bundled together into an omnibus bill in the Senate called the Western Economic Security Today (WEST) Act.

Colorado gas fracking rules still hazy in wake of guv’s task force report

By | 04.19.12 | 9:53 am

As oil and gas rigs creep closer to Colorado neighborhoods, it still isn’t clear whether local governments can regulate the industry on their own or if they must solely stick to the state’s rules.

With Congress gridlocked on climate legislation, environmental groups forge ahead

By | 09.24.10 | 7:43 am

Despite the Gulf oil spill, a massive pipeline break in Michigan and broad concerns about global warming, ambitious climate-change and energy legislation is likely dead for the year. That poses a conundrum, going forward, for environmentalists: How to convince lawmakers of the need for legislation to sever the country’s decades-long ties to oil and to reform energy policy more generally?