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Some Colorado voters now see racial justice and climate justice as intertwined issues

Grace Hood, CPR - June 25, 2020

Oil and gas donors become an issue in Democratic primary, but most of the money is flowing to the GOP

Sandra Fish, Special to The Colorado Sun - June 25, 2020

Gross Dam in Boulder County (Photo by David Herrold via Flickr: Creative Commons)

Guest Post: NIMBYs are Earth Warriors

Environment/Energy Gary Wockner - July 24, 2019

Last weekend I stood in the back yard of a mountain house overlooking the massive proposed expansion of Gross Dam in western Boulder County....

Americans are ditching grass lawns for water conservation

Major Western cities pay residents to rip out their lawns to save water. Why...

Environment/Energy H20 Radio - July 18, 2019

A new study in 2016 showed that lawns are the largest irrigated crop in America. There are over 40 million grassy acres in the continental...

Grand Junction, on the way to Arches National Park. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management will move its headquarters to Grand Junction under a plan released by the Trump Administration on Tuesday, July 16. (Photo by Desi via Flickr: Creative Commons)

Trump team releases plan to move BLM headquarters to Grand Junction 550 employees would...

Environment/Energy Allison Winter, States Newsroom - July 16, 2019

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration revealed sweeping plans on Tuesday to dismantle and disperse the Bureau of Land Management, sending its current headquarters staff...

The Colorado River near Hite, Utah on Oct. 20, 2018. (Photo by John Herrick)

Analysis: Western states buy time with a 7-year Colorado River drought plan, but face...

Public Policy Bradley Udall, Douglas Kenney, and John Fleck - July 11, 2019

As Midwest states struggled with record spring flooding this year, the Southwest was wrestling with the opposite problem: not enough water. On May 20,...

Sen. Cory Gardner speaks to a Chamber of Commerce group at the Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix in May 2018. (Photo by Greg Skidmore, via Flickr:Creative Commons)

Cory Gardner joins conservation caucus; environmentalists scoff

Environment/Energy Robin Bravender - July 10, 2019

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) on Wednesday joined his GOP colleagues on Capitol Hill in announcing the formation of a new conservation...

Patrick Murphy, Boulder County Public Health employee, uses a FLIR infrared camera to check for gas leaks at a operating well pad in eastern Boulder County. (Photo by Ted Wood/The Story Group.)

Colorado will consider requiring drillers to track and report methane emissions State air quality...

Environment/Energy John Herrick - July 9, 2019

Vehicles and power plants are by far the biggest producers of greenhouse gases in Colorado, contributing roughly 50% of all planet-warming emissions in our...

Congressman Joe Neguse (center, right) is pushing the "Colorado Outdoor Recreation and Economy (CORE) Act," which aims to preserve about 400,000 acres of public lands in the state. The bill cleared the House Natural Resources committee by a vote of 23-15 along party lines.

Massive Colorado wilderness bill advances in U.S. House

Environment/Energy Robin Bravender - June 26, 2019

WASHINGTON -- Sweeping legislation that would preserve vast swaths of wilderness and recreation areas in Colorado advanced in the U.S. House on Wednesday. The House...

Kelsey Persyn, a Rocky Mountain National Park ranger, teaches a bear education program. Persyn utilizes props and the help of eager young volunteers to teach visitors the difference between black and grizzly bears. (Photo by Andria Hautamaki)

Close encounters with the bear kind The very places that attract visitors and newcomers...

Environment/Energy Paige Blankenbuehler, High Country News - June 21, 2019

At the height of the tourist season at Rocky Mountain National Park in 2018, a plump black bear ambled into the lobby of the...

Trump EPA failing at its mission, say four former agency bosses Rep. Diana DeGette:...

Environment/Energy Allison Winter, States Newsroom - June 11, 2019

WASHINGTON -- Four former heads of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday blasted the Trump administration’s management of the agency, a show of...

Interior Secretary David Bernhardt at Western Governors Association Conference in Vail on Monday, June 10, 2019. (Photo by Alex Burness)

In accidental interview, Interior Sec. David Bernhardt talks climate change, national parks and outdoor...

Environment/Energy Alex Burness - June 11, 2019

VAIL, Colo. -- Interior Secretary and native Coloradan David Bernhardt said Monday in a brief, if unintentional, interview with The Colorado Independent that he’s...

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