Democrat John Hickenlooper famously told a U.S. Senate committee he’d sipped fracking fluid — it was, “almost ritual-like,” he said in 2013 — to prove it’s safe. Now the one-time energy geologist is pitching himself as the more pro-climate candidate in a battle to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner. Hickenlooper’s success might seem surprising […]
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As more electric vehicles are on the way, Colorado’s tax incentives begin to wind down
Colorado is gearing up for an influx of electric vehicles, thanks to new state policies and pending legislation to increase the number of vehicles available for sale and who can sell them. But there’s one thing in decline — the tax credits available to new electric-car buyers. Colorado’s credit for new EV purchases dropped to […]
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Opinion: In Colorado, conservative and pro-oil and gas communities support renewables, too
If you believe some politicians and media pundits, the way we produce energy in the United States is extremely controversial. To hear them tell it, some people are wedded to fossil fuels and other people only want renewables. The two sides are locked in vicious political combat and the idea of them ever working together […]
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NREL scientists have a plan to fight ocean plastic: Upcycle it into something valuable
Some 15 years ago, when Gregg Beckham started to scuba dive seriously, he slipped into the water off the coast of Thailand, and what he found was a lot of floating plastic bottles and waste. Now he finds plastic refuse wherever he dives. “You can’t go diving without being inundated with plastics in places that […]
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Jared Polis wants Colorado 100 percent powered by renewable energy, but talk is easier than the walk
Denver wants to do it, as do Fort Collins, Pueblo and Breckenridge. Aspen has already done it, and Colorado Gov.-elect Jared Polis wants the whole state to do it by 2040: run on 100 percent renewable energy. There is even a push by incoming congressional Democrats, led by U.S. Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, of New York, to […]
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Colorado native studying the economics of climate change shares Nobel Prize
By Jim Heintz and David Keyton, The Associated Press Two Americans won the Nobel Prize in economics on Monday, one for studying the economics of climate change and the other for showing how to help foster the innovation needed to solve such a problem. William Nordhaus of Yale University and Paul Romer of New York […]