Environment

“Every single day, I have to worry about ozone, and wonder how much my family is being impacted.”

What’s happening at the Environmental Protection Agency’s regional office in Denver on Friday? It’s…complicated.

“Adams County is not Boulder County. We’re also not Weld County. Adams County is in the middle.”

Can you still drill for oil in Colorado? “It’s a silly question,” says Governor Jared Polis.

Denver won’t be voting on an energy tax this year, but it could end up on the 2020 ballot in one form or another.

The University of Wyoming Forensics lab performed the necropsy.

Denver is “not on the glide path that is necessary to achieve the scientifically stated goals,” city officials say.

Are climate-conscious Colorado Democrats really ready to nominate the governor who earned the nickname “Frackenlooper” for Senate?

A sample from the proposed Jefferson Parkway tested five times higher than the agreed-upon safe level.

Councilwoman Kendra Black is drafting legislation that would ban the plastic bags used by grocery stores and other retail counters.

“Scientists have told us that we have to take urgent and unprecedented action. That’s not easy.”

“We all know that the sooner we get electric vehicles on the road, the sooner we’ll be breathing clean air.”

The contractor wanted a three-year extension, but residents successfully argued for a shorter timeline and increased accountability.

An expert says looking for shortcuts can prove fatal.

“Climate change is the greatest threat to our environment, economy and health, especially to our most vulnerable populations. Urgent and unprecedented changes are needed.”

“We still have work to do. We’re not perfect.”

Climate change, said Governor Jared Polis, is “an existential threat to our security, our health, our economy, our public lands and ecosystems, and our very way of life.”

“We’ve tried it your way. We tried to be polite, and yet you haven’t denied a single permit.”

The state’s first-ever special grand jury was impaneled on August 1, 1989.

“We’re not anywhere close to being done with reducing emissions from this sector.”

After a voluntary, “alternative” approach was rejected last month, state officials and automakers have agreed to a different compromise.

Democrats thought they had crafted a bill that could win GOP support, but Republicans aren’t biting.