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Colorado’s recycling rate improves to 17.2%, but we’re producing more trash than ever
Recycling advocates push Coloradans to reduce waste and want more than 3 of the state’s 10 largest cities to offer curbside recycling
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A new federal grant program allots $10 million for high-hazard dams in Colorado, 25 other states
By The Associated Press Environment Primary category in which blog post is published
Interior Department proposes coveted water deal to ex-client of Secretary David Bernhardt
By The Associated Press Environment Primary category in which blog post is published
Two more electric co-ops are trying to leave Tri-State Generation. They’ve asked the Colorado PUC for help
By Mark Jaffe Energy Primary category in which blog post is published
Colorado may legalize sports betting with Prop. DD. But a different gambling expansion didn’t make it.
By John Frank Politics and Government Primary category in which blog post is published
Colorado oil and gas regulators are now pursuing penalties in deadly 2017 Firestone home explosion
The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission said it was waiting for a final report on the blast from the NTSB. The report was released on Tuesday.
White House threatens veto of CORE Act, the massive Colorado public lands bill splitting the state’s congressional delegation
U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton, a Cortez Republican whose district would be most affected by the bill, also says he cannot support the legislation in its current form and will be voting against it
Decision to allow homes to be built near oil and gas drilling facilities contributed to fatal Firestone blast, NTSB says
Federal investigators found that the severed natural gas pipeline that caused the blast likely had been cut during 2015 construction of the same house it later destroyed
How a Colorado College professor become a lightning rod for controversy by starting a global garlic war
Stanley Crawford brought on controversy in 2014 when he agreed to file a complaint against Harmoni International Spice, an American company that is owned by Chinese exporter Zhengzhou Harmoni Spice
New attack ad from oil and gas industry ally blasts Gov. Jared Polis and Democrats for “junk science”
Defend Colorado launched a campaign to undercut a new state-commissioned study showing potential health impacts from drilling operations
Democrats in Congress demand update on Trump administration’s wild horse plans
William Perry Pendley, acting director of the Bureau of Land Management, said last week he's increasingly optimistic his agency will eventually be able to reduce herd sizes
The faith-based and environmental opposition to Colorado’s Proposition DD makes for strange company
The 2019 ballot question about whether to legalize sports betting is drawing critics, but not a well-organized opposition
It turns out the keys to the origins of modern life on Earth were buried under Colorado Springs
Denver Museum of Nature & Science spent three years combing through the Corral Bluff area, just east of Colorado Springs, finding fossils that painted a picture of how the planet’s ecosystem recovered from the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event
BLM boss: Solving wild horse problem will take $5 billion, 15 years
William Perry Pendley says the agency adopted out more than 7,000 mustangs and burros captured last year — the most in 15 years
