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Environment

Posted inEnvironment

Colorado sees geothermal as a key part of the clean energy transition. But funding it has proved difficult.

by Michael Booth 3:08 AM MST on Nov 15, 20238:12 AM MST on Nov 17, 2023

$5 million in state grants for clean energy projects might help

Posted inEnvironment

How can Colorado attack “forever chemicals” tainting military soil? School of Mines is leading the way to find out.   

by Michael Booth 3:08 AM MST on Nov 13, 202311:58 AM MST on Nov 12, 2023

Nine different techniques for getting PFAS out of toxic dirt will be tested next year at Schriever Space Force Base near Colorado Springs

Posted inNews

PHOTOS: What the Climax mine leaves behind  

by Hugh Carey and Michael Booth 4:30 AM MST on Nov 11, 20239:22 AM MST on Nov 13, 2023

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

by Jason Blevins 3:50 AM MST on Nov 10, 202310:24 AM MST on Nov 10, 2023

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

by Shannon Mullane 4:05 AM MST on Nov 9, 20236:11 PM MST on Nov 8, 2023

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.

Steam rises into the air from a plant.
Posted inEnvironment

How is Colorado doing on cutting carbon emissions? Not great, state analysis says.

by Michael Booth 3:08 AM MST on Nov 8, 20239:54 PM MST on Nov 7, 2023

To meet ambitious 50% reduction by 2030 requires tougher limits on fossil fuels, more free transit and denser land planning.

Bohart Ranch
Posted inEnvironment

Conservation groups and the military may seem like strange bedfellows. But the match protects land — and Coloradans.

by Tracy Ross 4:38 AM MST on Nov 6, 20239:28 AM MST on Nov 8, 2023

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

by Shannon Mullane 4:02 AM MST on Nov 6, 20238:27 AM MST on Nov 6, 2023

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.

pipeline laid out next to a ditch
Posted inPolitics and Government

How $500M in federal infrastructure money is being spent in Colorado

by Mark Jaffe 3:35 AM MST on Nov 6, 20235:58 PM MDT on Nov 3, 2023

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

by Shannon Mullane 4:02 AM MDT on Nov 3, 20235:42 PM MST on Nov 17, 2023

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.

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