$5 million in state grants for clean energy projects might help
Environment
Posted inEnvironment
How can Colorado attack “forever chemicals” tainting military soil? School of Mines is leading the way to find out.
Nine different techniques for getting PFAS out of toxic dirt will be tested next year at Schriever Space Force Base near Colorado Springs
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PHOTOS: What the Climax mine leaves behind
The world’s hunger for molybdenum keeps the Climax mine running 24/7 — even after more than a century of extraction
Posted inOutdoors
Dam on the Arkansas River near Salida finally removed after years of rescues, drownings and environmental impacts
Colorado Parks and Wildlife and Chaffee County commissioners help fund removal of the dam that has threatened river runners, fish habitat for nearly 60 years.
Posted inWater
New Douglas County water commission includes former state official, real estate developer
Douglas County has created a new water planning group to help it grapple with future water insecurity, but some selected appointees are raising questions for local water providers.
Posted inEnvironment
How is Colorado doing on cutting carbon emissions? Not great, state analysis says.
To meet ambitious 50% reduction by 2030 requires tougher limits on fossil fuels, more free transit and denser land planning.
Posted inEnvironment
Conservation groups and the military may seem like strange bedfellows. But the match protects land — and Coloradans.
The Nature Conservancy, Trust for Public Land and Palmer Land Conservancy announce a multiyear partnership to conserve open space and “sustain the military”
Posted inWater
Prohibition on thirsty, decorative grasses in Colorado gains early support among legislators
A draft bill aims to prohibit new installations of grass that sucks up too much water. It’s the latest action in a growing conservation movement in arid Colorado.
Posted inPolitics and Government
How $500M in federal infrastructure money is being spent in Colorado
The state’s share of the 10-year, $1.2 trillion federal infrastructure act has mostly gone to water resources and scientific innovation
Posted inWater
Federal government’s short-term Colorado River stabilization plan paints a “rosy” picture
Colorado water experts say the federal proposal to cut Lower Basin water use is a start, but dry winters in the next three years could send the river back to the brink of a crisis.