The Pitkin County Commissioners Wednesday unanimously voted to support the Hidden Gems wilderness proposal, which would designate nearly 63,000 acres of public lands in Pitkin County as wilderness area. That designation limits mechanized travel.
VAIL – The Vail Town Council Tuesday night tabled a resolution of support for the controversial Hidden Gems wilderness proposal when representatives of a major Western Slope water district voiced 11th-hour opposition to the plan being weighed by U.S.…
Colorado Sens. Mark Udall and Michael Bennet voted with 51 of their colleagues Thursday to defeat Republican Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s Congressional Review Act resolution seeking to block U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulation of carbon dioxide emissions as a form…
Colorado Rep. Diana DeGette’s bid to get full public disclosure of the chemicals used in the hydraulic fracturing of natural gas wells was withdrawn as an amendment to a Safe Drinking Water Act bill Wednesday after debate by the…
One is indeed the loneliest number, especially when it comes to reforming a rural electric co-op board bent on quashing clean-energy and conservation initiatives in the name of dirtier-burning coal.
The same Montrose County board of commissioners that recently kicked off a uranium mill hearing with the Pledge of Allegiance and then stood on a stack of apple pies in approving the domestic energy, freedom-from-foreign-oil benefits of a proposed…
The Aspen Chamber Resort Association’s board of directors Tuesday voted 12-2 to take on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for its questioning of global warming science and other policies it’s adopted that are aimed at thwarting climate-change legislation, according…
David Weigel at The Washington Independent reports on the latest resolution being pushed by Republican National Committee member Jim Bopp, the Indiana RNC member who admonished Chairman Michael Steele to embrace the word “socialists” in referring to…
A grass-roots citizen’s group troubled by air and water pollution from natural gas drilling in Garfield County expressed “extreme disappointment” Monday when the county commissioners voted 2-1 to oppose more federal oversight of the industry.
Even as the Garfield County commissioners today take up debate on a resolution regarding the FRAC (Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals) Act, an environmental researcher in New York released a damning report on the natural gas industry in…
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