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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...

Dems set carbon-cutting goal of 50% by 2030; activists call it...

Update: The bill, HB-1261, passed the House on April 16 by a 41-23 party-line vote.  Political realities inside the Gold Dome are tempering lawmakers’ efforts...

Get to know the Green New Deal, by the numbers The...

Not long after Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., was elected last November, she began gathering support for a “Green New Deal,” mobilizing young climate activists...

House Republicans take aim at EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases

The first of several promised clashes over U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulatory powers came this week at a hearing over a Republican bill that would block the agency from regulating greenhouse gases.

GOP: What climate change? What new energy economy?

There is thoughtful skepticism and then there is today's Republican Study Committee release mocking the EPA’s finding that greenhouse emissions threaten human health. Reading...

Fitz-Gerald Urges Tough Vehicle GHG Standards

Colorado Senate President Joan Fitz-Gerald (D-Coal Creek Canyon) has weighed in on California's side in the state's dispute with the Environmental Protection Agency over...

Colorado Lagging Badly in Curbing CO2 Emissions

Colorado had the fifth largest increase in carbon dioxide emissions -- the most important greenhouse gas -- of all states in the U.S. between...