Superior’s board of trustees, searching for a way to block a proposed plan to drill 31 wells in the community, edged toward a six-month drilling moratorium and purchasing the drill site for public open space at a meeting Monday night. “We are unified in our opposition to this,” Mayor Clint Folsom said at the work […]
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Mapping the 2018 vote: Blue Colorado gets bluer and the divide remains
Democrats posted historic wins Tuesday and a look at the results show the 2018 election divided Colorado. The preliminary results, mapped by county, show a definite blue streak along the Front Range and more Democratic success than in the 2014 midterm and even the 2016 election in some places. Democrat Jared Polis defeated Republican Walker […]
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Proposition 112 fails, but big vote total signals oil and gas setbacks will be headed to the Colorado capitol
Proposition 112 — which sought to keep 2,500 feet between new oil and gas operations and any home in Colorado — did not win. But its proponents may not have lost either. The ballot initiative was voted down 57 percent to 43 percent, but it garnered more than 825,000 votes — a potentially powerful statement […]
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Trump administration again backs off plan for drilling on Colorado public land
The Trump administration is again shelving plans to allow oil and gas drilling on public land in Colorado after complaints from state officials and activists. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management said Friday some of the land is in big game habitat and some is in the North Fork Valley in western Colorado, where bureau […]
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The Front Range fails to meet federal standards for healthy air quality. Again.
Air quality in Denver and the northern Front Range worsened over the summer and the region missed an extended deadline to meet federal health standards, according to monitoring results by the state’s Air Pollution Control Division. That’s bad news for Coloradans suffering from asthma and lung diseases, or young children whose lungs are still developing. […]
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Emotional video from Proposition 112 backers features brother of man killed in Firestone explosion. The oil and gas industry says the two are unrelated.
Proposition 112 backers have released a new campaign video featuring the distraught brother of a man killed last year when a home exploded in Firestone. The explosion, blamed on a severed flowline from a nearby natural gas well, in part prompted the measure that would increase the distance between new oil and gas operations and […]
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Here’s why more electric vehicles, including a future Subaru, may become available in Colorado — or not
The sales of electric and hybrid vehicles continue to rise in Colorado. And to no surprise, the top-selling model this year is a crossover-SUV, the Toyota RAV4 Hybrid. But that’s a hybrid, so gas power kicks in when needed. Pure electric vehicles, especially SUVs and pickups, are a much rarer breed at area auto dealerships […]
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The top 10 corporate donors in Colorado’s 2018 election — and what they want
Seven of the top 10 organizations spending the most money in the 2018 election represent the oil and gas industry, a Colorado Sun analysis shows. The energy companies and allies are focused on two ballot initiatives and have so far spent $29 million on the effort to defeat Proposition 112, which calls for greater setbacks […]
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Fact check: What’s true (and what’s not) about 2018 Colorado ballot measures
The Colorado ballot is crowded this year with questions about taxes, transportation, energy and education — not to mention a bunch of local issues. All the competing messages flooding the TV airwaves makes it difficult to know up from down and how to vote. MORE: A preview of Colorado’s 2018 ballot: Taxes, roads and an existential […]
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Fight over prices, renewable energy spurs second rural cooperative to leave Tri-State Generation
The rural electric cooperative serving Delta, Montrose and the Western Slope communities around them has moved a step closer to leaving its power provider, the Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association. Co-op members voted Tuesday to adopt new incorporation articles enabling the Delta-Montrose Electric Association (DMEA) to use a limited stock issue to raise the cash […]