Tag: Environment Colorado
New report counters ‘jobs-killer’ rap on Waxman-Markey climate change bill
A new report on the employment benefits of House-passed climate change legislation provides some useful ammo for conservationists looking to shoot holes in the...
Love it, hate it: Conservationists split on Sherman pick to head...
Some conservationists praised the Obama administration’s nomination Thursday of Harris Sherman to the post of Undersecretary of Natural Resources and Environment at the U.S....
Udall hearing examines 1872 mining law; reform pits Reid against Salazar,...
Pulling hard-rock minerals like uranium, gold and copper out of the ground is a royalty-free proposition in the United States, despite the often enormous costs of cleaning up public lands after the fact.
Senate committee passes clean energy bill, environmental group unimpressed
Colorado’s environmental community wasn’t exactly singing the praises of the Senate version of clean-energy legislation passed by the Energy and Natural Resources Committee Wednesday.
Environment Colorado issued a release saying the American Clean Energy Leadership Act of 2009 “does little or nothing to spur renewable energy in this country. The proposal risks sensitive coastal ecosystems [in Florida] to pollution and spills from off-shore drilling, while worsening global warming by opening the door to high-carbon fuels such as liquid coal, tar sands and oil shale.”
Colorado likely to play critical role in shaping clean-energy bill
Colorado’s New Energy Economy will serve as a model and its congressional delegation as a catalyst for a comprehensive energy bill currently being hashed out in two U.S. House committees, according one Denver-based environmental advocate closely tracking the legislation.