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ExxonMobil’s natural-gas plunge makes sense globally and in Colorado

Analysts are calling ExxonMobil’s $31 billion acquisition of natural-gas giant XTO Energy a much safer bet than a similar leap made by energy conglomerate...

The innovative high-end NYTimes dot com comments-section technology

Newspapers have done a lot of bad business over the past few years, including perhaps continuing to print and distribute newspapers! One of the...

Palin: Shun science’s ‘politicized agenda’

One of the perks of political rock star-dom is that you get to write pretty much whatever you want and the nation’s leading newspapers...

Aspen biz group eyes taking on U.S. Chamber for its climate-denying...

More Colorado companies and business organizations are piling on with the Obama administration in an escalating war of words with the rigidly conservative U.S....

IREA Voices touts new study on looming coal shortages

IREA Voices, a citizen activist group formed to combat the climate change policies of the state’s largest rural electric co-op, is pointing its members...

Groups across Colorado plan for ‘International Day of Climate Action’

More than 60 Colorado climate actions are planned for Saturday, which has been dubbed the 2009 International Day of Climate Action by the grass-roots...

Huge plumes of heat-trapping methane wasted in gas drilling, infrared reveals

Natural gas wells and storage tanks throughout Colorado may look fairly benign to the casual observer, but infrared cameras show them gushing heat-trapping methane...

Aspen die-off could be costly for Colorado as fall-foliage fizzles

Leaf-gaping season is officially over in Colorado’s high country, and many observers say it was one of the shortest and most disappointing displays of...

The Ken Buck interview: Government is good; too bad it costs...

Colorado politics blogger David Thielen interviewed Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck last week. Buck is one of the GOP frontrunners in the race...

Montrose officials approve uranium mill plan, give nod to domestic energy

MONTROSE — It began with the audience turning, facing the flag and reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. Just over an hour later, a special Montrose County commissioner meeting ended with the unanimous approval of controversial uranium mill permit that was as much an endorsement of American energy independence as it was a repudiation of environmental concerns.