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Senate sides with oil subsidies while hopes for wind energy tax credit dashed again

By | 03.29.12 | 2:34 pm

If you hear someone laughing the next time you fill your car with gasoline, look around and see if you can’t spot an oil executive on his way to the bank.

Wind power credit stalls in Senate, again

By | 03.14.12 | 7:20 am

Another attempt to extend a tax credit that helps keep wind turbines turning in Colorado and beyond failed in the Senate on Tuesday.

Lamborn’s excuses blowing in the wind while Polis sets sights on oil shale ‘boondoggle’

By | 02.15.12 | 10:45 am

Asked why he was Colorado’s lone congressional holdout in calling for the extension of the wind tax credit, U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn answered his “preference is to help industry grow by reducing federal regulations and mandates as opposed to carving out special interests in the tax code.”

Hickenlooper names wind energy executive as new head of GEO

By | 01.01.11 | 10:02 am

The administration of governor-elect John Hickenlooper Friday named Denver-based wind energy executive Tanuj “TJ” Deora the new director of the Governor’s Energy Office, created by Gov. Bill Ritter in 2007 to facilitate the state’s burgeoning “New Energy Economy.”

Frazier ad says one thing: facts say another

By | 10.08.10 | 1:11 pm

If people look to television advertising to decide how to vote, we’re in trouble. Still, someone must think that at the very least the 5 percent to 15 percent of undecideds in the middle must look to the telly for…

Xcel releases clean energy report touting SmartGrid, SolarTAC, Solar Rewards

By | 05.27.10 | 3:53 pm

Xcel Energy, Colorado’s largest electric utility with 1.3 million customers, released its annual Corporate Responsibility Report for 2009 on Thursday, touting several green energy projects in Colorado among its accomplishments in the company’s eight-state territory.

Udall, Bennet tout stimulus funding of new wind project in NE Colorado

By | 01.21.10 | 3:37 pm

A 30-megawatt wind-energy project in northeastern Colorado with the potential to expand to 650 megawatts will get $2.5 million in stimulus funds, according to a joint release Thursday from Sens. Mark Udall and Michael Bennet.

Estonian energy firm wants to site windmills atop oil-shale ash fields

By | 12.16.09 | 9:00 am

Estonia, a nation ravaged by unchecked oil shale production and its environmental consequences, according to international studies, has finally hit on a greener use for fields of oil shale ash.

According to the Baltic Course, described as an “International…

Everything but the trail maps: Vail Resorts to go paperless

By | 07.28.09 | 12:49 pm

Vail Resorts on Monday announced a green initiative to dramatically reduce its $1-million-a-year annual paper budget, but for now will keep printing trail maps skiers and snowboarders can stash in a coat pocket, according to the Vail Daily.

The…

Udall pulls amendment to boost federal Renewable Electricity Standard

By | 06.05.09 | 4:28 pm

Colorado Sen. Mark Udall Thursday first introduced than pulled back an amendment that would have strengthened a proposed national Renewable Electricity Standard (RES) of 15-percent renewable electricity for all utilities by the year 2021.