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Sherrod to sue Breitbart, joins ACORN employees in seeking redress

By | 07.29.10 | 3:42 pm

AP reports that Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod has declared she will sue right-wing activist publisher Andrew Breitbart for posting a tendentious blog and misleadingly edited video that painted her as a racist. Breitbart post on Sherrod fed…

Wednesday Links: Gardner gives Barton back his BP cash

By | 07.21.10 | 1:27 pm

Fourth-District GOP Congressional candidate Cory Gardner this quarter returned $1000 to Joe Barton, the Texas representative who invests (unwisely) with BP and who apologized to the oil giant for the government’s demand that it set aside billions to…

Environmental groups petition EPA to set air-pollution limits on coals mines

By | 06.17.10 | 9:37 am

A coalition of national environmental groups Wednesday petitioned U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Lisa Jackson to begin limiting air pollution from coal mines nationwide, including several large mines in Colorado.

Earthjustice, WildEarth Guardians, the Center for Biological Diversity, the…

Vilsack puts brakes on road building on Colorado public lands

By | 05.28.10 | 1:23 pm

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Friday reinstated a year-long “time out” on road building on more than 58 million acres of public lands in 39 states, including more than 4 million acres in Colorado.

“While the courts continue to wrestle with…

Colorado coal mine rep inaccurately claims methane flaring illegal

By | 05.17.10 | 1:18 pm

Obviously pleased with last week’s roadless ruling allowing Oxbow Mining to vent more methane at is Elk Creek Mine near Paonia, a company spokesman over the weekend also took the opportunity to skewer environmentalists on the issue of methane capture or flaring.

For Colorado coal industry watchers, mining safety not a top concern

By | 04.23.10 | 4:53 pm

Colorado’s coal industry, the ninth-most productive in the nation in 2008, is under fire from politicians and environmentalists but not, as is the case this month in West Virginia, for safety reasons.

Stimulus grant brings broadband to rural Colorado

By | 12.18.09 | 4:37 pm

As high-speed broadband service has increasingly become a key utility in America, residents in many of Colorado’s rural communities are finding that they simply don’t have access to speeds needed to download music or movies–or simply research in a timely…

$40 million for beetle kill sparks climate-change debate that misses key point

By | 12.09.09 | 11:40 am

Tuesday’s announcement by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack that the U.S. Forest Service is pumping $40 million more into coping with the ongoing pine bark beetle epidemic predictably stirred up the same old tired climate change debate.

The rice-sized beetles…

Unofficial Colorado Roadless Week rolls on with Sherman hearing, rally

By | 09.30.09 | 11:00 am

In what the Pew Environment Group has dubbed “Unofficial Colorado Roadless Week,” opponents of the state’s controversial policy aimed at protecting 4.4 million acres of mostly undeveloped public lands will converge on Denver’s Civic Center Park at noon on…

Vilsack appreciates ‘unique situation’ driving Colorado on roadless rule wildfire mitigation

By | 09.29.09 | 12:17 pm

DENVER — U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Monday gave the strongest indication to date that the draft of Colorado’s roadless rule, which allows road-building exemptions for wildfire mitigation in wilderness areas, will at least be closely considered as the Obama administration moves toward a comprehensive national rule.