Tag: Epa
Uranium mill cleanup bill sails through House by 62-2 vote
A bill that would require uranium mills to clean up past toxic pollution before applying to expand processing operations passed the state House on...
Taking one for the natural gas team: Penry backs Ritter clean...
Gov. Bill Ritter’s Colorado Clean Air-Clean Jobs Act brought together some strange bedfellows this morning in the west foyer of the State Capitol in...
Ritter renewable hike sails through Senate; clean air bill next on...
Gov. Bill Ritter may be a lame-duck chief executive laid up by a recent bike crash, but his clean-energy agenda keeps rolling along like Lance Armstrong in the Alps.
Activist Biggers fights uphill battle against dirty coal
Jeff Biggers, a civil rights activist and cultural historian, watched helplessly a dozen years ago as the hollers of Eagle Creek, Illinois — a corner of the Shawnee National Forest and his family’s home for roughly 200 years — were blasted away, the forested hills bulldozed by companies harvesting the lucrative coal seams underground — a scene from Avatar playing out before the movie was made.
ProPublica report: state oil and gas enforcement staffing levels inadequate
Colorado oil and gas regulators have admitted to the Colorado Independent they’re spread too thin to handle a new set of EPA rules if...
Report: EPA permit would allow Powertech to contaminate aquifer with proposed...
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency documents obtained by Environment Colorado reveal behind-closed-doors negotiations between the EPA and Powertech USA that would allow the company to...
Climate change ‘Plan B’ gives oil-and-gas industry the jitters
While uncertainty swirling over a meaningful climate change agreement coming out of Copenhagen, and the U.S. Senate far from passing anything close to last...
Agriculture interests fighting new clean water permitting for pesticides
The agriculture industry is petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a lower court ruling requiring anyone spraying pesticides on or near water to...
Markey, Bennet call on EPA to give public a say in...
U.S. Rep. Betsy Markey and Sen. Michael Bennet Monday released a letter they sent to the Environmental Protection Agency calling for more public involvement...
Garfield County officials see value in Battlement Mesa health study
Garfield County public health officials believe a relatively untested type of health impact study could be a valuable tool in assessing the risks of natural gas drilling in the heart of the Battlement Mesa retirement community on Colorado’s Western Slope.