A Colorado Court of Appeals decision issued on Thursday, finding that state law requires oil and gas regulators to place greater priority on protection of public health and the environment in issuing drilling permits, may prove to be a shot in the arm for beleaguered anti-fracking groups.
In Colorado, we tend to hear about avalanches when they have fatal consequences, as was the case with a Garfield County slide caused by snow bikers in February that overtook two people, killing one of them. But at this time of year, when winter is transitioning into spring, avalanches that don’t get media attention are happening all the time, and many, if not most, of them could have deadly consequences if folks are in the wrong place at the wrong time.
The Denver protests over the Dakota Access Pipeline started over six month ago. And although most of the campers have left the banks of the river, the protests aren’t about to stop. On March 10, Native Americans and their allies will rally in Denver.
Last week’s 6-3 vote by the Broomfield City Council to “postpone indefinitely” any action on a proposed moratorium on oil and gas drilling, despite widespread support for such a measure, has left neighborhood organizers puzzling over their next move in the local fracking wars.
Over a hundred people gathered at the Broomfield Community Center on February 22 for the third in a series of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service meetings on plans for what’s now the 5,000-acre Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge.
A court document expected to be filed today seeks to add several Denver residents to a lawsuit against the city, challenging its plans to convert City Park Golf Course into a “detention area” for stormwater runoff — including Denver City Council maverick Rafael Espinoza, who’s raised several questions about the city’s $300 million drainage project.
On Tuesday afternoon, attorneys for six underage plaintiffs will be arguing that the state’s oil-and-gas regulators should be doing more — a hell of a lot more — to protect Colorado’s children from the real and potential ill effects of the fracking industry.
Hiking in Colorado during the winter can be absolutely spectacular, but unexpected events that take place in a challenging, high-altitude environment can have dangerous or even deadly consequences. Here are seven tips to avoid making fatal mistakes at this time of year.
Just days after Colorado Department of Transportation officials received a long-awaited final okay to proceed with a $1.8-billion makeover of I-70 through north Denver and Aurora, opponents of the highway expansion are holding a “community town hall event” tonight to discuss what options remain for putting the brakes on the project.
Most Denverites like to think of themselves as environmentally friendly. But there’s plenty of evidence to the contrary. A report from Eco-Cycle on view below reveals that Denver’s recycling rate is 18 percent — one of the worst on the front range and exceedingly mediocre on a national scale.
A decision this week by the Broomfield City Council to postpone action on a proposed five-month moratorium on new oil and gas development highlights the legal and political uncertainties local government officials are facing as they try to figure out what authority they might have to control the spread of fracking operations in their communities.
The clean energy industry now accounts for 62,000 jobs and is playing a growing role in Colorado’s economy, according to a new report distributed this morning to state lawmakers
In Scott Pruitt, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to head the Environmental Protection Agency, we have a particular breed of twenty-first century conservative, a champion of states’ rights (when it suits him) and poor, beleaguered industries, including poor little Big Oil and much-maligned King Coal.
In the twilight of the Obama administration, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell came to Denver yesterday to announce the adoption of long-range plans to protect the Roan Plateau and the Thompson Divide — two spectacularly scenic and environmentally fragile areas on the Western Slope — from oil and gas drilling.
Plutonium has a half-life of 24,100 years — and it looks like stories about the former Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons plant, which produced plutonium triggers for bombs at a facility sixteen miles northwest of Denver, could keep coming for about as long. The legacy of the plant includes ongoing concerns…
On Halloween, the scariest day of the year, Aspen officials filed legal paperwork preserving the resort town’s conditional rights to make use of water from two of the last free-flowing creeks in the Roaring Fork watershed. A mundane matter for most municipalities, perhaps, but not in Aspen, where the move…
Glass is infinitely recyclable, so it’s easy to imagine that all those bottles and jars you put out at the curb every week are headed off to be melted down and remade — baby-food jar into baby-food jar, beer bottle into beer bottle, forever and ever, amen. But as Melanie…
If you’ve driven through the high country in recent days, you’ve likely seen roadkill along the roadside. But collisions involving wildlife don’t only kill animals — especially during this time of year, when migration patterns result in more deadly encounters between vehicles and large game such as deer and elk…
More than sixty years ago, when the Atomic Energy Commission decided to place one of thirteen nuclear weapons plants on a windy plain sixteen miles northwest of Denver, few people lived nearby. Rocky Flats was just that — a largely flat, rocky area by the foothills, with few houses nearby…
There’s no quick way to get to get to Porcupine. It’s out in the middle of nowhere, but Rob Pyatt has been driving back and forth between there and Boulder just about every month for five years now. It takes about six hours, depending on whether you head straight up…
Last December, the Colorado Department of Transportation debuted what it dubbed a Peak Period Shoulder Lane — shorthanded as PPSL — constructed along a thirteen-mile stretch of Interstate 70 heading eastbound from Empire to Floyd Hill. The idea was to ease traffic on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays for people returning to Denver…
Tomorrow, untold thousands of Coloradans will hit the road and head to public lands across the state in order to enjoy nature’s splendor during one of summer 2016’s final weekends. But those who would like to drive to Hanging Lake, in White River National Forest, are in for a disappointment…
