The Bureau of Land Management wants to remove the 122 horses living in West Douglas. One-third of the horses gathered in the last roundup there died of equine flu.
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Federal appeals court derails Uinta Basin Railway plan to send billions more gallons of Utah crude through Colorado
The decision directs the Surface Transportation Board to redo its review and consider potential threats the railway poses to the Colorado River and communities far down the line
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Tiny spill of water likely tainted with uranium in Cañon City confirms watchdog group’s worries about Superfund site cleanup
State health officials say Cotter Corp., which ran a uranium milling operation there for decades, will return to manage the site until cleanup is complete
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Aging activists have battled for decades to clean up a Colorado Superfund site. Who will fight once they’re gone?
The Cotter Uranium Mill Superfund site has an estimated 5.8 million tons of radioactive waste buried under the dirt
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Cotter Mill cleanup company says it is insolvent, will stop work on Cañon City Superfund site
Colorado Legacy Land was paid in 2018 to take over remediation of one of the slowest Superfund cleanups in the U.S. and a uranium mine leaking into Ralston Creek west of Denver
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As places like Cañon City court redevelopment, they find an unlikely ally in the EPA
The agency’s brownfields program just came into lots of new money. And they want rural and small-town Colorado to help spend it.
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In latest effort to staff Colorado’s prisons, CDOC is offering $7K bonuses and making TikToks
The prison system is offering up to $7,000 to new correctional officers in Sterling, Limon, Buena Vista and Cañon City.
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Federal officials ignore Colorado governor’s plea to stop capturing wild horses, plan Western Slope roundup this week
Federal officials will begin capturing hundreds of mustangs roaming in far northwestern Colorado this week, dismissing a request from Gov. Jared Polis to halt roundups while the state and U.S. Bureau of Land Management find a “more humane” option for managing wild horses. The federal agency’s announcement of its next roundup — in the Piceance-East […]
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Cañon City facility where 145 wild horses died is short-staffed, in violation of federal policies, report finds
The federal Bureau of Land Management failed to vaccinate wild horses captured from western Colorado because the Cañon City holding facility lacks enough workers and because the mustangs were “unusually high-strung,” according to a report released Thursday that offers the first clues about why 145 horses died from a typically preventable equine flu. A review […]
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141 wild horses — a third of those captured from the Western Slope — died in country’s deadliest flu outbreak
A third of the wild horses captured from Western Slope rangeland last summer have died in the equine flu outbreak at their holding pens in Cañon City, though federal officials said Wednesday that the outbreak is winding down. Mustang deaths — which numbered more than 20 on the worst days of the outbreak — have […]