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GOP Utah guv blasts Obama’s DOE for stimulus-backed uranium shipments

Utah Gov. Gary Herbert, a Republican, is accusing the Obama administration of playing politics by rushing three rail shipments of depleted uranium from Cold...

GarCo commissioners push back on ‘Path Forward’ for nuclear blast site

The Garfield County commissioners Monday rejected a federal plan called the “Path Forward” that would allow for increased natural gas drilling close to an...

Ritter to Feds: don’t dump your mercury mess on Grand Junction

Gov. Bill Ritter made his opposition to mercury storage near Grand Junction official Thursday, sending a letter to U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu opposing...

Colorado clean-energy programs benefit from $20 million stimulus boost

The U.S. Department of Energy Monday delivered on nearly $20 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding for energy efficiency and renewable energy...

Rio Blanco and Garfield counties: A tale of two nuclear gas...

In the late 1960s and early '70s, four nuclear devices were exploded underground on Colorado's Western Slope in an effort to free up commercially marketable amounts of natural gas from dense sandstone formations.