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Green groups sue feds over proposed Rocky Flats land swap to build Jefferson Parkway

By | 02.15.12 | 2:50 pm

Two environmental groups filed a lawsuit in a Denver federal court Tuesday to try to stop a proposal to turn the eastern edge of the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge into a four lane, high-speed tollway.

The lawsuit, filed by…

Forest Service pumps brakes on coal mine expansion into Colorado roadless area

By | 02.14.12 | 1:24 pm

The U.S. Forest Service overturned a decision Monday to approve the expansion of a coal mine in western Colorado that biologists feared would destroy wildlife habitat.

Federal officials caught in ‘snarky’ exchange with public over coal mine expansion

By | 11.30.11 | 6:59 am

Clearly U.S. Forest Service (USFS) officials and opponents of coal mine expansion in western Colorado won’t be exchanging Christmas cards this holiday season. Instead, shovelfuls of coal and snark to spare will be dumped in their respective stockings.

U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton.

Koch family feud finds common ground in funding for Tipton

By | 09.20.11 | 7:54 am

Billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch don’t often see eye
to eye with youngest brother Bill. On at least two things, though, they share common ground: A love for Colorado and an eagerness to fund Rep. Scott Tipton’s campaigns.

Cache la Poudre River.

Endangered Species Act settlement deal could break listing logjam

By | 09.13.11 | 11:34 am

A federal judge late last week signed off on a deal struck between the WildEarth Guardians environmental group and the U.S. Department of the Interior that would compel the federal government to reach final Endangered Species Act listing decisions on 253 species in the next five years.

Natural gas flaring in North Park, Colo. (EcoFlights photo)

Polis, Hinchey laud proposed EPA air-quality rules for gas drilling, push for more safeguards

By | 07.29.11 | 8:17 am

U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, D-Colo., on Thursday praised the work of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in proposing tough new air quality standards aimed at dramatically reducing smog- and cancer-causing pollution stemming from the ongoing shale gas boom opened up by the controversial hydraulic fracturing process.

coal mining

Coal mine methane capture plan sparks cautious praise, feasibility questions

By | 01.27.11 | 10:08 am

Plans by a Denver-based company to capture and convert to energy methane gas spewing from a coal mine in western Colorado came as a surprise to environmentalists who have been urging such action for years and won praise from at least one potential customer, the Aspen Skiing Company. Holy Cross Energy, a Glenwood Springs-based electric co-op stretching from Aspen to Vail, is working with Denver-based Vessels Coal Gas to recover coal mine methane at Oxbow Mining’s Sanborn Creek Mine in Gunnison County, according to the Vessels website.

Groups serve feds with notice of intent to sue over Arapahoe Snowfly

By | 12.01.10 | 10:05 am

A coalition of environmental and citizen activist groups today filed a notice of intent to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) for failing to act on a petition to list the Arapahoe Snowfly – native to the Poudre…

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…

Calls for Salazar’s head coming from both left and right

By | 06.15.10 | 9:40 am

You know you’re having a bad month or two at the office when the calls for your head are coming from both the left and the right. Interior Secretary and former Colorado Sen. Ken Salazar increasingly finds himself in that…