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After lawsuit from Colorado and other states, Utah asks Trump administration to delay decision on tapping Lake Powell
Utah cited the need to consider roughly 14,000 public comments on a draft environmental impact statement, released in June by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, for the Lake Powell pipeline project
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Opinion: Selling public lands to balance the federal budget is not a choice for Coloradans
By Jamie Park Opinion
Tribes’ ancestral remains return home from Finland to Colorado’s Mesa Verde National Park
By Colorado Sun staff and wire report News Primary category in which blog post is published
Colorado, five other states promise lawsuits if feds fast-track approval of Utah’s Lake Powell Pipeline project
By Jason Blevins Environment Primary category in which blog post is published
Drilling, mines and other projects hastened by Trump’s coronavirus order
By The Associated Press Environment Primary category in which blog post is published
Some unemployed Coloradans will see Trump’s extra $300 a week benefit starting in mid September. But it won’t last.
The president’s Lost Wages Assistance will only help people who have already filed for unemployment. And the Trump administration only provided Colorado enough money to last three weeks.
William Perry Pendley, acting head of Bureau of Land Management, hangs on despite nixed nomination
Colorado's Republican U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner refused to say if he supported Pendley or not
Colorado attorney general in discussions with other states about legal action to protect U.S. Postal Service
The talks come as fears over the Trump administration’s degradation of the Postal Service ahead of the November election have reached a fever pitch
Colorado to extend state benefits to the unemployed for 13 more weeks
Gov. Jared Polis planning to apply to FEMA for $300 bonus weekly unemployment pay through President Donald Trump's executive order
Trump’s order to extend unemployment benefits could cost Colorado $31.1 million a week — money it doesn’t have
Meanwhile, the state’s unemployment trust fund will run out of money this month while there are still nearly 311,000 workers receiving jobless benefits
EPA settles lawsuit with Utah over Gold King Mine spill
Utah’s lawsuit was one of several legal claims filed over the incident, but no other settlements have been reached, the EPA said Wednesday
Littwin: As feds sweep Portland streets, there’s no reason to think Denver couldn’t be next
For Trump, this is probably no more than an attempt to revive his fading re-election hopes. But in reality, sending in unwanted and unneeded and unmarked federal agents is so much worse than that.
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