rssColorado Gov. John Hickenlooper’s climate change rhetoric continues to cool
By Troy Hooper |
02.07.12 | 4:14 pm
The governor’s stance on climate change continues to retreat like so many of the world’s glaciers.
Posts Tagged Natural Gas
DeGette, Polis seek to expand fracking study, push for tougher health protections
By Troy Hooper |
02.03.12 | 12:13 pm
U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette and Jared Polis are calling on President Obama to strengthen environmental and public health standards to protect against risks posed by hydraulic fracturing.
Obama clean energy push draws partisan reaction from Colorado lawmakers
By Troy Hooper |
01.25.12 | 2:38 pm
President Obama’s call to increase domestic energy production Tuesday received a rosy reception from Colorado’s lefty lawmakers but was all but ignored by its conservative congressional delegation who are still smarting from the commander-in-chief’s recent blocking of the Keystone XL oil pipeline.
New NCAR study finds little climate benefit in switch from coal to natural gas
By Patrick Michels |
09.09.11 | 1:20 pm
Natural gas may be a cleaner-burning energy source than coal, but making the switch isn’t likely to slow global warming any time soon, according to a new study in the journal Climatic Change.
Scientists say DOE fracking panel biased by ‘financial ties to natural gas, oil industry’
By David O. Williams |
08.11.11 | 8:47 am
A group of doctors and scientists from 24 different universities and non-profit research organizations – including Colorado School of Mines and the University of Colorado – recently sent a letter (pdf) to Energy Secretary Steven Chu blasting his picks for a Department of Energy panel studying the controversial natural gas drilling process of hydraulic fracturing.
Eagle County landfill eyes taking gas-drilling pit liners banned by Garfield County
By David O. Williams |
07.06.11 | 10:01 am
Eagle County’s landfill manager is considering disposing of natural gas drilling pit liners that neighboring Garfield County stopped accepting two years ago because the massive, high-density polyethylene sheets are potentially toxic and too tough to handle.
Natural gas industry keeping water testing data from researchers
By Ed Brayton |
05.19.11 | 5:19 am
Despite having complained for years that studies on the effect of hydrofracking on drinking water supplies are deficient because they don’t include pre-drilling water quality data on wells and water systems, the natural gas industry has been keeping that data away from researchers.
IREA members re-elect just one green board member
By David O. Williams |
04.18.11 | 10:28 am
The state’s largest rural election association last week once again elected just one green candidate in a bloc of three members looking to reform policies currently geared more toward conventional power sources. Mike Kempe, a chemical engineer and research scientist for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, was re-elected to the Intermountain Rural Electric Association board by a margin of 2,892 votes to 1,870 for challenger John Dendahl. Kempe is often to the lone dissenting vote on the board of the IREA, which has just under 140,000 members in the Front Range suburbs between Denver and Colorado Springs.
Polis, Tipton differ dramatically on federal natural gas drilling regulations
By David O. Williams |
03.21.11 | 3:48 pm
Even as U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, D-Boulder, continued his crusade last week to step up federal oversight of the natural gas drilling industry, his fellow Western Slope congressman, Republican Scott Tipton of Cortez, proposed a new regulatory impact study (RIS) to tabulate the fiscal impacts of federal regulations on industry.
BLM rethinking climate change impacts of coal mine methane on Colorado’s Western Slope
By David O. Williams |
03.16.11 | 5:07 pm
Environmental groups trying to compel the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to mitigate the climate change impacts of coal mine methane are encouraged by today’s BLM decision to reconsider approval of a mine expansion on Colorado’s Western Slope.
