Tag: Blm
Enviro groups sue over lack of oil and gas air-pollution analysis...
Conservation groups today filed suit against the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for allegedly illegally approving thousands of oil and gas wells on federal land in western Colorado without conducting proper air-pollution analysis.
BLM rethinking climate change impacts of coal mine methane on Colorado’s...
Environmental groups trying to compel the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to mitigate the climate change impacts of coal mine methane are encouraged by today's BLM decision to reconsider approval of a mine expansion on Colorado’s Western Slope.
Tipton accused of ignoring local support for Salazar’s wild lands policy
With more House Natural Resources Committee meetings on Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s controversial wild lands policy on tap for today, conservation groups are calling out Republican members of Colorado’s congressional delegation for ignoring Salazar’s support among local constituents.
Salazar: Economic growth more often tied to recreation than to extraction
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar this week said that economic growth in rural areas of the West depends as much or more on...
For Colorado coal industry watchers, mining safety not a top concern
Colorado’s coal industry, the ninth-most productive in the nation in 2008, is under fire from politicians and environmentalists but not, as is the case this month in West Virginia, for safety reasons.
Enviro group claims Obama making Bush look good on coal mining
Recent lease approvals and signs that the Obama administration is falling in love with the nation’s coal industry have Jeremy Nichols of New Mexico’s...
Water cleanup bill in delicate dance with mining law reform
Just outside of Central City in Colorado's Gilpin County, the historic Perigo gold mine drains metal-laden water at an average of 70 gallons per minute into a small perennial stream known as Gamble Gulch. Below the mine for six miles, the gulch is virtually devoid of life, according to the Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety.
A design for a proposed project has been completed, but Colorado won’t bid it out for construction because it worries that if it does, it open itself up, in perpetuity, to a lawsuit under the Clean Water Act.
Interior’s Salazar accuses O&G industry of engaging in ‘election-year politics’
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar fired back at the oil and gas industry Tuesday, telling reporters on a conference call that recent attacks on the...
Polis weighs into fray over ‘Hidden Gems’ wilderness proposal
U.S. Rep. Jared Polis (D-Boulder) is clearly trying to head off health care town hall-style lynch mobs at the pass by getting out in...
Oil shale backers blast Salazar, but Ritter supports lease limitations
Even as Interior Secretary Ken Salazar was announcing new environmental reforms for the next round of oil shale research and development leases on public...