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State orders Cotter to clean up uranium mine fouling JeffCo drinking water

By | 05.21.10 | 2:22 pm

Environmentalists and local politicians Friday cheered a Colorado Division of Reclamation Mining and Safety order late Thursday directing Denver-based Cotter Corp. to begin curtailing drinking water contamination from an inactive Jefferson County uranium mine this summer.

Utah nuclear power push worth ‘great risks,’ freshman Rep. Chaffetz says

By | 01.13.10 | 1:01 pm

No matter how much water it takes to cool a proposed nuclear power plant near Green River, Utah – the topic of thorny debate in an ongoing regulatory process — the specter of such a facility upwind and…

Markey, Bennet call on EPA to give public a say in proposed uranium mine

By | 12.01.09 | 8:51 am

U.S. Rep. Betsy Markey and Sen. Michael Bennet Monday released a letter they sent to the Environmental Protection Agency calling for more public involvement in any federal regulation of a proposed uranium mine 15 miles northeast of Fort Collins in…

Nunn uranium mine could adversely impact groundwater, expert says

By | 08.19.09 | 9:41 am

Colorado has uranium on the brain these days.

An environmental engineer and lecturer brought in by conservationists told an audience in Fort Collins Tuesday they should be concerned about the deterioration of their water quality if a proposed uranium mine…

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