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Colorado AG, top water quality regulator vow to challenge new Clean...

Colorado and other Western states will be hard pressed to shield their rivers and streams under a new federal Clean Water Act rule finalized...

Guest Post: Pollution protections vitally important during and after coronavirus crisis...

At a time when America is under assault from the deadly new coronavirus, Trump’s EPA has told polluters that they will not face enforcement...

The EPA has paused enforcing air quality laws. Colorado regulators say...

State health officials say they’re trying to stay the course on regulating air and water pollution during the COVID-19 pandemic even as the Environmental...

Trump EPA chief to Congress: Cut my funding The Trump administration...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s U.S. EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler wants Congress to deeply cut funding for his own agency in the next fiscal...

Colorado’s goal to rein in ozone misses federal deadline by two...

Colorado health officials have set a goal to reduce toxic ground-level ozone along the Front Range by 2023 — roughly two years beyond a...

EPA dubs Colorado a “serious” violator of federal air quality standards...

The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday formally designated Colorado a "serious" violator of federal air quality standards designed to protect public health, kicking off...

Advocates and industry gird for battle over new oil and gas...

Colorado air quality officials are poised to write new rules next week for toxic and planet-warming gases emitted from oil and gas operations.  The Polis...

Report: Colorado’s Superfund sites among those threatened by climate change Five...

WASHINGTON — Five of the most contaminated sites in Colorado are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, according to a new report from...

Hickenlooper is pitching his climate credentials on the Senate trail. It’s...

On a cloudy afternoon in October, John Hickenlooper was standing on the sidewalk outside the Broadway Market in Denver. A woman asked to take...

Ask the Indy: In Colorado, how culpable are cows for climate...

In response to a story The Colorado Independent wrote about proposed oil and gas air emissions regulations, reader Nancy McDonald asked if we have...