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White House effort to relax NEPA environmental protections met with pushback...

Lyla June Johnston, an activist and member of the Diné, or Navajo, nation, drove six hours from Santa Fe, New Mexico to Denver to...

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...

Colorado begins new phase of reining in emissions from oil and...

State air quality officials on Thursday adopted new oil and gas regulations that will require companies to more frequently inspect equipment for planet-warming and...

Oil and gas regulators could soon decide whether to make maps...

Oil and gas regulators are poised to write new rules this week requiring companies to test, map and remove some of their underground lines,...

Gov. Jared Polis pitches budget that aims to tackle emissions with...

Gov. Jared Polis wants to increase the number of state oil and gas inspectors to ensure companies drilling in Colorado comply with the state’s...

In Front Range region suffering from poor air quality, oil and...

In September, Gov. Jared Polis signed an executive order aimed at improving air quality in Colorado’s northern Front Range, a region that is still...

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...

Colorado will consider requiring drillers to track and report methane emissions...

Vehicles and power plants are by far the biggest producers of greenhouse gases in Colorado, contributing roughly 50% of all planet-warming emissions in our...

No federal protection for the greater sage grouse

Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced today that the greater sage grouse does not require protection under the Endangered Species Act. Once upon a...

Threats of another lawsuit looms over Colowyo after expansion OK’d

The Colowyo Mine, at the heart of a climate-change motivated lawsuit between the environmental group WildEarth Guardians and the U.S. Department of the Interior,...