Romanoff slams Bennet, Udall for voting to extend Big Oil tax breaks

DENVER– At a press conference Thursday, Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful Andrew Romanoff called out his opponent Sen. Michael Bennet as well as Democratic Sen. Mark Udall for voting down an amendment that would have closed tax loopholes through which the oil industry evades paying $35 billion to the government each year. Colorado’s Senators said they supported the proposal in theory but that the amendment was written poorly and would have unnecessarily penalized small oil companies and cost Colorado jobs.

Coloradans rally to oppose Murkowski bid to block EPA on Clean Air Act

Colorado environmentalists are rallying opposition to a resolution floated by Republican Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski that would block the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from enforcing several key aspects of the Clean Air Act.

According to an analysis by Environment Colorado,…

Sportsmen, Colorado conservationists question some aspects of climate bill

Nearly a year after the U.S. House of Representatives narrowly passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act last June, Sens. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., Wednesday finally rolled out their much-anticipated American Power Act.

Notably absent…

Norton struggles to battle image as government insider and shaky fiscal conservative

U.S. Senate candidate Jane Norton talked to Don Johnson at his The Business Word blog last week. The Q&A highlights the battle-lines now drawn between the main Republican primary opponents Norton and Ken Buck. Problem for Norton is that the battle-lines have been drawn by her opponents and she can’t win on these lines of attack, which is why she’s being called a “former frontrunner” and one of the National Republican Senatorial Committee’s “fading stars.” With Johnson she spends a lot of energy attempting to paint herself as the true fiscal conservative in the race and to paint Buck as the Washington insider. She will lose on both counts.

Western Tradition attacks 98-year-old corporate campaign spending ban

The conservative Astroturf group that spent thousands to swing the Longmont City Council back to the right last November and keep the Garfield County commissioner board in the oil and gas camp in 2008 has filed a lawsuit…

Curry says drilling regs likely not a factor in Ritter’s decision not to run again

State Rep. Kathleen Curry, who recently stunned political observers with her switch from Democrat to Independent, told the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel she doesn’t think Gov. Bill Ritter pushing through environmentally tougher oil and gas drilling regulations last spring…

GOP: What climate change? What new energy economy?

There is thoughtful skepticism and then there is today’s Republican Study Committee release mocking the EPA’s finding that greenhouse emissions threaten human health. Reading this peacock of a press release, you would think that battling measures meant to combat…

Ralston heralds wilderness plan to block ‘extractive development’

AVON — Colorado mountaineer Aron Ralston, famous for a bouldering mishap in Utah which he survived by amputating his own forearm, has been touring the state with other recreation proponents pushing for a huge new wilderness proposal called Hidden…

Hidden Gems, or locked away too tightly? Wilderness plan stirs debate

A coalition of environmental groups looking to drum up local support for a huge new wilderness bill that could protect up to 450,000 acres of national forest land in Colorado from oil and gas production, timber sales and mining have…

Obama admin dips toe into legal fray over conflicting roadless rule decisions

Thursday’s court filing by the Department of Justice in the 10th Circuit Court in Wyoming, which has federal jurisdiction over Colorado, indicating the DOJ will appeal two previous rulings against the 2001 Clinton roadless rule is a strong sign which…