Roadless rule hurtling down Bush fast-track
The Bush administration appears to be charging even harder down the road to a new Colorado roadless rule despite a meeting of a U.S. Forest Service advisory group in Washington earlier this month that revealed numerous problems with the plan.
This is the Bush administration's last chance to implement its vision of how to administer pristine forest and park land. While in the Senate, President-elect Obama opposed the Bush administration's plans for roadless areas.
Report: Water and oil shale don’t mix
The Bush administration and the Bureau of Land Management are pushing relentlessly ahead with plans to fast-track Colorado’s long-dormant oil shale industry, but a study released this fall exposes one factor that could put a big damper on the boom: a serious lack of water.
Former CU Regent calls David Skaggs the clear choice for CSU prez
Sen. Wayne Allard has floated his name out there. State Rep. Bernie Buescher says he’d do it. Perennial college presidential favorite Hank Brown has been mentioned. And now former Republican CU Regent Jim Martin is promoting the man he thinks is the obvious choice to lead Colorado State University: former congressman and current executive director of the Colorado Department of Higher Education David Skaggs.
Can Colorado’s ecosystem thrive without wolves?
To say that Colorado ranchers are howling mad over the science being used to justify wolf reintroduction in the southern Rockies would be to overstate their case slightly … and use an unpardonably bad pun in the process.
AG Suthers argues water before the Supremes
John Suthers, Colorado’s Attorney General, is headed to the U.S. Supreme Court today to go to battle with Kansas in a dispute over water that has been going on for more than a century. It is the first time that Suthers, formerly the U.S. Attorney for Colorado, former head of the Department of Corrections, former 5th Judicial District Attorney and recent correspondent from the Republican National Convention, has been before the highest court in the land.
Ski industry’s holiday wish list for Obama, new Congress
Somewhere way down Barack Obama’s list — likely trailing ending the war in Iraq, resuscitating the DOA economy, health care reform and achieving energy independence — is the agenda of the nation’s ski industry.
Grading the greeness of your favorite Colorado ski area
A Durango-based nonprofit ski-industry watchdog group issued its annual environmental scorecard last week, ranking four Colorado resorts in the top 10 with “A” grades and flunking two in the bottom 10 with “F’s”.
Bush pardon for eagle-killer doesn’t mean open season on the birds
When President George W. Bush issued 14 pardons on Monday, one stood out in the list of cocaine dealers and bank fraudsters — a Missouri farmer who was convicted more than a decade ago of killing bald eagles.
EPA holiday tips: Sprinkle organic nutmeg on your eggnog, avoid plastic cups
Officials at the Bush administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), often maligned for undermining the Clean Air Act and refusing to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, are clearly dreaming of a soot-gray Christmas as they head off into an increasingly hazy sunset.
EPA moves to ease pollution rules
The Environmental Protection Agency seems on the brink of issuing a new regulation that would make it easier for power plants to operate longer hours — and emit more pollution.