Environmental groups say heat pumps can get most of the emissions out. Xcel paid for a study that begs to differ.
Western Resource Advocates
Posted inWater
What can Coloradans do to save water at home? Experts share tips, insight into water-saving strategies
From shorter showers to new faucets, Colorado experts break down the role of at-home water use in the Colorado River’s limited supply.
Posted inBusiness
Why was your utility bill so high this past winter? Blame the drought — and California.
As the drought cut California’s hydropower production, the utilities in state scrambled to buy natural gas, driving up costs across the West
Posted inPolitics and Government
Three members of Colorado’s congressional delegation seek $60 billion to reduce wildfire risk, restore Western land
The Protect the West Act is sponsored by U.S. Sens. Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper, as well as U.S. Rep. Jason Crow
Posted inBusiness
Xcel Energy will hike its gas rate for a third time this year in Colorado
Xcel Energy was OK’d to increase natural gas bills for the third time this year. Consumer advocates say it could have been worse.
Posted inEnvironment
Colorado is falling behind on its mandate to cut greenhouse gases
New state assessment shows big gaps in goals for transportation emissions and lag in finalizing closures of fossil fuel power plants
Posted inClimate, Energy, Environment, News
Colorado has 200,000 tons of orphan greenhouse gases that no one claims, environmental groups say
Nearly 200,000 tons of orphaned greenhouse gas emissions seemed to go off the books of a coal plant when a utility sold its partial share of the power. Another utility made a vague promise to replace 80% of its transmission through clean resources, without revealing how that magic total will be reached. Maybe these Colorado […]
Posted inEnergy
A project looking to move water from Utah to Colorado’s Front Range gets new funding, partner
Water Horse Resources CEO Aaron Million is still eyeing a Green River pipeline, which critics dismiss as a “silly idea”
Posted inBusiness, Climate, Economy, Environment, News
Here’s where Colorado wants to capture and bury 350,000 tons of carbon dioxide each year
A pioneering carbon capture company wants to take the climate change fight to northeastern Colorado by gathering 350,000 tons of carbon dioxide a year from ethanol fermentation at plants in Yuma and Sterling and injecting it into underground wells. Carbon America announced the project Thursday with Sterling Ethanol and Yuma Ethanol, in apparently the first […]
Posted inNews, Outdoors
Glenwood Springs granted right to build whitewater parks after 9 years in water court
Colorado’s river recreation economy boomed in the first 10 years of recreational in-channel diversion water rights, which state lawmakers created in 2001 to protect water used for recreation. In the decade that followed, 20 communities claimed rights that kept rapids roiling in whitewater parks that became community centerpieces. But those water rights, known as RICDs […]