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One rancher’s plan to establish water buffalo in Colorado The challenges and possibilities of...
“If more ranchers knew about water buffalo, they would forget about cows,” José Miranda, a Carbondale rancher, told me one morning last January over...
Move BLM headquarters to Colorado? Environmental groups pan proposal
WASHINGTON -- A majority of Colorado’s Congress members support a plan to move the national headquarters of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to...
Aurora residents cry foul on city’s draft agreements for new oil wells If council...
Update: After three hours of public testimony and heated debate among council members, the Aurora City Council voted, 6-4, to enter an agreement with...
Wildfire escape routes? There’s (almost) an app for that. Scientists are using crowdsourced data...
In 2013, when a wildfire changed tack and made a run for the town of Yarnell, Arizona, 19 members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots...
Guest Post: Colorado’s toughest-in-the-nation air quality regulations are working A response to The Story...
There is much to dispute within Daniel Glick’s story, but let’s begin here: Our air quality conditions in Colorado are not worsening. In fact,...
Guest Post: Gray wolf protection imperiled by politics, again Gray wolf populations are still...
In an era when environmental regulations throughout the United States are under siege, one particular species that has only recently begun to bounce back...
Neguse: Feds should give states more say in burn bans on U.S. lands
WASHINGTON — Colorado Rep. Joe Neguse has urged the U.S. government to give states more power to ban burning on federal land in an...
Will the Trump administration boost uranium industry? Lobbyists are pushing administration to order...
In July 2017, lobbyists from Energy Fuels Resources, a Canadian uranium mining company with operations in the United States, urged the Trump administration to...
Capitol Review: Democrats attacked greenhouse gas with a dozen bills Ambitious climate-change agenda...
Editor’s note: The Indy is publishing a series of short stories reviewing the 2019 legislative session in Colorado. Here, we focus on climate change. We also...
Colorado Dem lawmakers tackle climate change without a single GOP backer Republican state lawmakers...
A climate change bill that would gradually reduce Colorado’s carbon emissions over the next 30 years is headed to the governor’s desk for approval...