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The Hangover Part III is funny but unlovable

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Controversy over fracking continues despite industry's best efforts to bury it

ExxonMobil's Rex Tillerson rejects "fear factor" in climate change research

Give Rex Tillerson some credit. At least the ExxonMobil CEO has avoided claiming that global warming isn't real, the way tobacco executives used to pretend lung cancer was just some weird, wacky, luck-of-the-draw disease that had no linkage to massive consumption of their product. Tillerson just h ... More >>

Diana DeGette blames Tea Party madness for bill to prevent regulation of farm dust

Diana DeGette.​Denver blog posts live like kings. Colorado Independent's Troy Hooper on Diana DeGette's nods to Alice in Wonderland when discussing legislation to stop the EPA from regulating farm dust. Which it isn't doing, by the way. Free Range Longmont's Joseph Bassman asks: Do you know ... More >>

Fracking: Gas industry pours $747 million into lobbying and Congress

Colorado well pads. ​As the oil and gas industry has turned increasingly to hydraulic fracturing to extract reserves, fears about groundwater contamination from the toxic chemicals used in "fracking" have intensified. And that's prompted a $747 million spending spree by major industry players ... More >>

Fracking primer: State seeks to address uproar over drilling process

​Hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking" -- pumping massive amounts of water mixed with toxic chemicals into tight formations to extract oil and gas -- remains a sore subject among environmentalists, neighbors of drilling rigs and some lawmakers, even as energy industry boosters insist it's safe. ... More >>

Colorado needs more official symbols. How about a State Brewpub?

It's official: Colorado is high!​When tax revenues are down, state legislators can feel marginalized, even redundant. Unable to fund -- hence debate, manipulate and gerrymander -- pet projects, they retreat to committee rooms or watering holes to wait for the economy to recover. In their quest ... More >>

Plans are heating up for the Rocky Flats Cold War Museum

Radiation from Japanese nuclear paint found in Colorado: Health dept. says no need to panic

​Last week, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment tried to counter media-fueled fears about radiation from the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan creating health risks here. Today, that job just got more difficult. The CDPHE confirms that "minuscule" amounts of ... More >>

Japanese radiation worries in U.S.: Health dept. tries to calm fears as media stokes them

​This morning, Peter Boyles spent part of his KHOW morning show wondering if we should be taking potassium iodide to protect ourselves against radiation from the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan. And at this writing, the main story on the CBS4 home page asks, "Could Japan's Radi ... More >>

Black out: Lamar gets steamed over a troubled coal plant -- right in the middle of town

Ken Salazar finds oil spilling from Gulf into Colorado

​The Deepwater Horizon disaster keeps spilling into my inbox, more than 1,300 miles from the Gulf of Mexico, where there's "oil for miles and miles," Attorney General Eric Holder lamented yesterday in New Orleans. Denver is more than 1,300 miles from the Big Easy, but the disaster has spilled ... More >>

Dirty prison tricks: Kansas adopts Colorado's asbestos removal program for inmates

Mark MangerFort Lyon inmates say they faced asbestos exposure in maintenance operations. ​A recent story in the Topeka Capital-Journal about a 2005 renovation at a Kansas women's prison has a familiar ring to it. Inmates and corrections employees have long claimed that they were forced to rem ... More >>

Rolling Stone really likes our search for a medical-marijuana reviewer -- they really, really like it!

Now we know why Gene Shalit seems to love so many awful movies.​The amount of coverage generated by our quest for a medical-marijuana dispensary reviewer has proven conclusively that national media outlets such as the New York Times to National Public Radio have a heretofore unimagined ganja o ... More >>

Fuel guru Bill Orr loses bid for new trial

U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Babcock has at last issued a ruling denying a motion for acquittal or new trial filed by attorneys for William Orr, the alternative fuel entrepreneur whose battles with the EPA led to a guilty verdict on 23 counts of fraud and tax charges in Babcock's courtoom l ... More >>

Reuse your bags!

Mayor John Hickenlooper yesterday announced a Greenprint Denver initiative to promote reusable bags at various city agencies and businesses. The Denver Public Library, for example, is eliminating the use of plastic bags at all of the branches. And such companies as&nb ... More >>

The gas war between Bill Orr and the government

LoDo gets more red meat with Fogo de Chao

Alternative Fuels Guru Out of Gas

Open Wide

Doors Open Denver peeks into the city's history.

Media Complicit in Hyping Story of Potential Leadville Flood

This Just In...

The latest nightlife news.

The Hunt for Green

Sorting out the payday in Denver's new recycling plan.

Dirty Pictures

This Rocky Flats movie gets glowing reviews.

The Skad-father

Skankin' it up with Bucket Hingley of the Toasters.

Strange but True

Rampaging bears! Rampaging Buffs! Criminals in the buff! It happened here... unfortunately.

Sing, You Sinners!

The sounds of silence at CU.

Search Party

Commander Chainsaw leads his troops into the depths of an abandoned Titan 1 Missile silo.

At Close Range

The Cherry Creek Shooting Center finds itself under the gun.

Bite Me

A Fish Story

Off Limits

Listing to the right

Pack Mentality

A media column about secondhand smoke stirs up a cloud of controversy.

Funky Town

Even though the EPA says Denver's air is getting cleaner, the odor lingers on.

Letters to the Editor

From the week of April 19, 2001

Letters to the Editor

From the week of August 24

The Hot Zone

Kaiser-Hill says it can do the job by 2006. But will Rocky Flats ever come clean?

A Bad Case of Gas

Montclair residents want Lowry to clean up a mess before it becomes a household problem.

Toxic Shock

Look Out Below!

When a Denver gas company started drilling wells in Las Animas County, it brought bad feelings to the surface.

Land, Ho!

Glenn Miller may rope back the land near Vail that he lost in bankruptcy court.

Game of the Century

The high-stakes real estate maneuvering behind Vail's newest expansion dreams.

It's the Pits

Mining made history in Victor. But will a new gold rush devour its future?

Letters

Informed Decisions

BURIED TREASURE

THE HONEYMOON'S LONG OVER FOR EX-EPA CHIEF ANNE BURFORD AND HER LATE HUSBAND--BUT THE DIVORCE IS FOREVER.

ANOTHER ROW OVER PLUTONIUM

A SPARKLING STANDLEY LAKE--AND A BOATLOAD OF PROTESTORS--GREET OLYMPIC FESTIVAL ATHLETES.

GLOWING REPORTS

THERE'S PLENTY OF GOOD NEWS ABOUT ROCKY FLATS. AND YOU'RE PAYING FOR IT.

BLOWING SMOKE

THE FIRM HIRED TO RUN COLORADO'S CONTROVERSIAL NEW EMISSIONS PROGRAM HAS MADE A KILLING GAUGING THE POLITICAL WINDS.

THIS IS ONLY A TEST

THE GOVERNMENT HAS A LESSON FOR GRADE-SCHOOL SCIENCE TEACHERS AND THEIR STUDENTS: THERE'S NOTHING TO FEAR FROM ROCKY FLATS.

HOW GREEN IS MY PRESIDENT

IN A STRANGE SUPERFUND TWIST, POLLUTERS SAY CLINTON'S CLEANUP PLAN IS "PRO-BUSINESS."