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The Irony of an Electric Car Named “Tesla”

Thomas Edison became a household name for inventing the first practical incandescent light bulb. But because of what happened in a small town in...

Wind energy group cites state renewable standards for huge spike in...

Clearly, renewable energy standards (RES) – adopted by nearly 30 states, including Colorado – work. That’s the message at least that’s coming from the...

Ritter praises Xcel for dropping solar-array surcharge to pay for transmission...

Gov. Bill Ritter Tuesday praised Xcel Energy for pulling back its plan to charge homes and small businesses with solar arrays a surcharge to...

Scanlan hopes to whip up beetle-mania inside Beltway

State House Majority Whip Christine Scanlan, D-Dillon, is whipping up a little beetle-mania this week in Washington, ratcheting up the rhetoric in the war for more money to battle the bug that won the West.