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Some Colorado residents want their local governments to ban fracking. Here’s...

Editors note: This story was originally published on Dec. 23, 2019. On Tuesday, at 11 a.m., environmental advocates are planning a news conference at...

Littwin: Romanoff asks which is scarier — his climate-change video or...

If you haven’t seen Andrew Romanoff’s new apocalyptic climate video, take a few minutes — four, actually — and hold on. Here it is. Assuming...

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...

New Colorado nonprofit news outlet ‘couldn’t pick two more polarizing topics...

"We're very much like the Chalkbeat of energy." That was the message publisher Mark Roberts had for a crowd of supporters at the Denver Athletic Club Tuesday...

Call the plumbers: Denver mayor’s office is investigating leaks to media...

Need a plumber in Denver? You might find one scrambling to plug some leaks in the mayor's office. That's according to a recent story drawing...

Greta Thunberg rallies in Denver with young Colorado activists The Swedish...

Climate activist Greta Thunberg joined hundreds of young and old Coloradans as they descended on Civic Center Park on Friday in a rally for...

Colorado residents ask district court to halt oil and gas drilling...

A group of frustrated Broomfield residents is asking the state court to halt oil and gas drilling in Colorado until state regulators update their...

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

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...

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

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...

Guest Post: NIMBYs are Earth Warriors

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