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The now operating wells at Crestone's Pratt site flank neighborhoods and the CO national Golf Course. (Photo by Ted Wood/The Story Group)

In Front Range region suffering from poor air quality, oil and gas drilling hasn’t...

Environment/Energy John Herrick -
In September, Gov. Jared Polis signed an executive order aimed at improving air quality in Colorado’s northern Front Range, a region that is still...

Ask the Indy: In Colorado, how culpable are cows for climate change? Livestock is...

Environment/Energy John Herrick -
In response to a story The Colorado Independent wrote about proposed oil and gas air emissions regulations, reader Nancy McDonald asked if we have...
Machinery sits idle in May at the Van 4 mine, the subject of a July court decision ruling that it must be shut down and cleaned up. (Photo by Mark Olalde/Center for Public Integrity)

While ‘zombie’ mines idle, cleanup and workers suffer in limbo Instead of paying to...

Environment/Energy Mark Olalde and Joe Yerardi -
This investigation was produced in collaboration with High Country News, The Center for Public Integrity and the Ohio Valley ReSource. The sound of metal banging against metal broke the...
A BLM intern works to identify idle oil wells and urge operators to either put them back in production or plug them permanently. Abandoned oil and gas wells can be pathways for methane to leak into the atmosphere. (Photo courtesy of Bureau of Land Management)

Colorado Congresswoman DeGette aims to force Trump’s hand on methane rules

Environment/Energy Allison Winter, States Newsroom -
WASHINGTON — Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) is pushing legislation that would reverse some of the Trump administration’s oil and gas policies on federal lands.  The...
Among the millions of acres in the Bureau of Land Management's portfolio is the 41,170-acre Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness in New Mexico. (Photo by Bob Wick, BLM California via Flickr:Creative Commons)

U.S. senators attempt to thwart planned BLM move A Senate subcommittee zeroed out funding...

Environment/Energy Allison Winter, States Newsroom -
WASHINGTON — Congress and the Trump administration butted heads Tuesday over the plan to move the Bureau of Land Management headquarters to Colorado. The U.S....

Good grief: Scenes and stories from Colorado’s climate change strike Indy reporters fan out...

Environment/Energy Staff Report -
My two sons are always bickering about our gas-guzzling SUV, the newspaper we have delivered each morning, and the yogurt containers that occasionally end...

Opinion: Youth climate movement puts ethics at the center of the global debate

Environment/Energy Marion Hourdequin, The Conversation -
This story was originally published by Marion Hourdequin,  a Colorado College professor specializing in environmental philosophy, on The Conversation on September 18, 2019. Even if...
Peaches grow in the orchards of Ela Family Farms ― a fourth-generation orchard in Hotchkiss, CO. (Photo courtesy of Ela Family Farms)

Guest Post: New fracking plan could threaten the Colorado peach

Environment/Energy Paul Reilly | Steve Ela -
Nothing says summer in Colorado like the treasured Western Slope peach, and we've had a spectacular season. Thousands of pounds of the succulent fruit have...
Oil and gas land managment must accommodate wildlife and growth

Guest Post: Finding accommodation among wildlife, growth, and oil and gas leasing

Environment/Energy Suzanne O'Neill -
Last month, Gov. Jared Polis issued an executive order that directs state agencies to prioritize protections for big game migratory corridors and winter ranges....
Scenery at Colorado National Monument, USA - Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel

Lawmakers grill Trump official on plan to shift BLM HQ to Colorado 

Environment/Energy Allison Winter, States Newsroom -
WASHINGTON — The head of the Bureau of Land Management today defended the Trump administration’s plans to close the agency’s Washington, D.C., office and...
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