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Colorado could stuff its CO2 deep in the ground to slow climate change

Colorado has snuffed the carbon-spewing smokestacks of some of its most noxious coal-fired plants. It’s tasked the oil and gas companies with plugging methane leaks in pipelines and capping carbon-weeping abandoned wells. And the state wants belching, gas-fueled V8s to turn themselves in for EVs with no tailpipe. Now, in another potentially crucial push to […]

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Colorado governor releases final plan to reduce emissions by 90%. It’s still too vague, environmentalists say.

The state released its final version of the highly touted “Greenhouse Gas Pollution Reduction Roadmap” Thursday, claiming it lays down the path and the timing of specific rules and legislation to achieve massive emissions reductions. But environmental advocates said it still is too vague to guarantee real change. The report by Gov. Jared Polis and […]

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An environmental group claims 70% of Colorado’s greenhouse gas emissions come from oil and gas. But that’s in dispute.

  In what is becoming a running skirmish between environmental groups and the Polis administration over how to curb the state’s greenhouse gas emissions, a new analysis calculates that 70% of all the gases come from oil and gas operations and calls for the shutdown of the sector by 2030. The figures used in the […]