Opponents of Rocky Flats Wildlife Refuge Drop a Bomb on Feds

At the fourth and final “sharing session” to discuss the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge that occupies most of the site that was once home to the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant, there was on sharing. So two weeks later, opponents shared something else: a motion to stop construction of the refuge.

Reader: Leave Wild Horses Alone, Trump!

As with most things Trump, Alan Prendergast’s Slaughter ’Em: The Trump Plan to Solve the West’s Wild Horse Problem, a story about the president’s plan to control the West’s wild horses population, drew plenty of comments from our readers. Some were sympathetic to the majestic beasts, others not so much. Says…

City Officials Fight for Secrecy in Lawsuit Over Stormwater Project

A lawyer for Denver residents challenging a  $300-million stormwater project says that city officials are being excessively secretive about the case, declining to provide more than 7400 pages of documents and maintaining that the internal processes that brought the project into being should be shielded from outside scrutiny.

Last-Minute Partisan Squabbling Blocks Oil Pipeline Safety Legislation

In the final days of the legislative session, state Democrats and Republicans blocked each others’ attempts to earn political kudos with oil pipeline safety legislation — though the two plans differed substantially in their aims. On Monday night, two days before the legislative session ended, House Republicans filibustered a bill…

Readers Talk Trash About Denver’s Bins and Dumpsters

Yesterday was Earth Day, and while many people renewed their commitment to recycling and keeping the environment as clean as possible, others were talking trash about Denver’s new bin system. Dumpsters are scheduled to be eliminated by the end of the year, according to Denver Recycles and Solid Waste Management, and some readers already miss them.

Who Needs Sci-Fi Movies When Colorado Has NREL?

Forget sci-fi movies: For a real surreal experience, look no further than Golden. Colorado’s first capital is now the capital of the green movement and home to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, which is celebrating its fortieth anniversary in July. NREL, which started out as the Solar Energy Research Institute…

Now That Climate Change Girl Scout Patch Exists, Here Are Ten More Ideas

This month, an environmental group called Colorado Moms Know Best (no, seriously) and the Girl Scouts teamed up to school the State Legislature and lieutenant governor on climate change challenges facing the 21st century. For doing this, they got not only a little experience in talking with our state’s elected officials — but also earned a new Climate Change patch.

Denver Was One of Top Ten Smoggiest Metro Areas in 2015

Denver has cracked the top ten list for smoggiest cities in the United States, according to a report by the Frontier Group and the Environment America Research & Policy Center that was released today, April 11. The Denver-Aurora-Lakewood area came in at sixth place on the ominous list, with…

Inside Campaign to Protect National Monuments From Trump, Congress

The Denver-based Center for Western Priorities has launched a national ad campaign aimed at preventing national monuments from being stripped of their protected status by the Trump administration. The threat is exemplified by the efforts of numerous Utah legislators, who are currently lobbying Trump and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to wipe out Bear Ears National Monument — a prospect that recently led Boulder’s Outdoor Retailer Association to announce that its annual Outdoor Retailer shows will pull out of Salt Lake City and seek a new home, perhaps in Colorado.

Standing Rock and Red Fawn Fallis: What’s Next and How to Stay Involved

Denver has significant ties to Standing Rock and the resistance movement against the Dakota Access Pipeline. Many people, including members of indigenous groups in Denver like the American Indian Movement of Colorado (AIM) and delegations from non-native groups like Black Lives Matter 5280, traveled the hundreds of miles from Colorado to the…