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Environment/Energy

Photo of smoggy downtown Denver skyline via the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Air Pollution Control Division, Technical Services Program, Wednesday, March 6, 2019.

EPA mulls further delays to rein in Front Range ozone as residents voice health...

The Environmental Protection Agency is poised to order a crackdown on polluters in the northern Front Range who contribute to the region’s unhealthy levels...
A lesser prairie chicken in Prowers County, Colorado. Photo by Nick Athanas via Flickr: Creative Commons.

Conservationists warn weaker Trump rules could doom Colorado dancing grouse

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s efforts to weaken the Endangered Species Act could make it harder to bring animals back from the brink, including...
Prairie Dog. Photo by Sharon Drummond via Flickr: Creative Commons

Guest Post: Prairie dogs are not pests

They’re easy to miss when you’re driving by. Tiny, sandy bodies blend in perfectly with the light dirt in which they make their homes....
Global warming climate change

Guest Post: Protecting our climate is a bridge issue — not a partisan wedge...

This is about our own lives and the future of everyone and everything we care about. When I was in Washington, DC in June I...
Gas wells along Parachute Creek near Battlement Mesa. The COGCC on Thursday adopted new rules requiring companies to map, test and remove flow lines. (Photo by John Herrick)

Longmont could be testing ground for limits of local control over fracking Anti-fracking advocates...

On Dec. 4, Boulder County District Court Judge Nancy W. Salomone reversed an earlier decision to reopen the 2014 case involving an oil and...
health impacts. Elyria-Swansea

Night work to continue as I-70 construction takes toll on Elyria-Swansea residents Residents say...

Raquel Casillas, a 32-year-old who lives on 45th Street near an I-70 off-ramp in Denver, said her 8-year-old son woke her up one night...
Volunteers partnered with Larimer County Natural Resources Department to help open up a wildlife corridor in Red Mountain Open Space. (Photo by Colorado State Forest Service via Flickr: Creative Commons)

Guest Post: Colorado should build a wall – of nature

If you think it’s bad now, the worst is still to come. In a news report two weeks ago, the Colorado state demographer stated...
Rep. Joe Neguse, of Boulder, serves on the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis at the University of Colorado Law School campus on Aug. 1, 2019. (Photo courtesy Sally Tucker)

House committee hearing on climate change sparks natural gas debate U.S. reps came to...

The first field hearing of the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis briefly turned into a cross-examination by Rep. Joe Neguse of an...

Court ruling could expedite cleanup of long-dormant uranium mines The Colorado Court of Appeals...

Recent images of the Van 4 uranium mine show a dark rig towering above a sagebrush and juniper mesa. Beside the scaffolding sit piles...
Extraction Oil & Gas well pad site near Windsor, Colorado. (Photo by Ted Wood/The Story Group)

Oil and gas emissions ‘not acceptable,’ Colorado’s top air quality regulator says The Air...

Colorado air quality regulators are ramping up efforts to slash planet-warming and ozone-forming emissions from oil and gas operations.  On Monday, the state Air Pollution...