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There’s a push to increase fines for Colorado polluters and directly help impacted communities
Last year, Colorado legislators pushed for stricter environmental protection. This year, they want everyone to benefit from the solutions.
Top Stories
10 states use bottle deposits to boost recycling rates. Could it work for Colorado?
By Moe Clark Environment Primary category in which blog post is published
Agriculture is part of the climate change problem. Colorado wants farmers’ soil to be part of the solution.
By Moe Clark Environment Primary category in which blog post is published
HIV-prevention funding is being slashed in Colorado, even as a growing number of people are diagnosed
By Jennifer Brown Health Primary category in which blog post is published
These five bills are designed to make Colorado schools safer. None touches on guns.
By Erica Breunlin Education Primary category in which blog post is published
Aurora spent $34 million on water from a toxic mine. It’s not as crazy as it sounds.
The plan to tap the aquifer above Park County's London Mine could provide a template for how thirsty cities can draw on new sources of clean water, while also cleaning up polluted mine runoff
Denver, northern Colorado fall short on EPA clean air rules
The move was expected after Democratic Gov. Jared Polis said in March the state wouldn't ask for an exemption based on pollution drifting into Colorado from China and elsewhere
Colorado Springs’ downtown creek has long been viewed as a blight. Then one man started catching trout in it.
Colorado Springs is one of only a few remaining Front Range cities without a creek or river being regularly used for recreation. “There’s so many opportunities," said Alan Peak.
A voluntary effort to speed up the availability of electric vehicles in Colorado has come unplugged
Automakers hoped they could convince Colorado not to adopt controversial zero-emission vehicle standards by volunteering to make more electric-vehicle models available in the state
Colorado is overhauling climate goals with an eye on scrubbing carbon from its electricity
Revisions to six sets of rules and four bills in the statehouse, including one that enacts "social cost of carbon" standard, aim to reduce carbon emissions while protecting coal-plant workers from obsolescence
EPA regional chief Doug Benevento: Trust-but-verify technique proves Rocky Flats is ready for the public
Areas open to the public for biking, hiking provided security buffer for places work with nuclear materials was done
Opinion
Rural southeast Colorado loved its landfills. After a health department deal, some will finally close
Rooted in small-town independence, the operations were a low priority for understaffed health inspectors. Faced with new concerns about groundwater, four of five will shut down in Baca County alone.
