Tag: clean energy
Boulder weighs exiting contract with Xcel
BOULDER-- The state's famously progressive college town is rallying around what it sees as a rare opportunity to seriously cut into its carbon footprint. Boulder's twenty-year franchise agreement with Xcel Energy is set to expire at the end of this year and community members are looking to exit the contract and cobble together new deals to make a major shift toward renewable clean energy sources like wind and solar power.
Levy’s rural electric election, solar gardens bills both headed to Ritter’s...
A pair of energy bills sponsored by Boulder Democrat Claire Levy have cleared both houses of the State Legislature and are headed to Gov....
Environmentalist ‘storm’ passes through Sen. Bennet’s Denver office
DENVER-- Around 50 environmental volunteers clad in raincoats, ponchos, and umbrellas “stormed” Senator Michael Bennet’s office on Wednesday urging him to take a strong stance protecting the Clean Air Act from recent attacks in Congress.
Ritter talks up clean energy at peak-oil confab, takes heat from...
Even as Gov. Bill Ritter was touting Colorado’s “New Energy Economy” at the 5th annual Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas-USA...
Colorado carbon capture projects move ahead with federal, state funding
A $3 million methane-to-electricity project at the Larimer County Landfill will use decomposing trash to provide enough power for about 900 homes and offset...
Conservation group hammers Rep. Salazar for no vote on ‘cap and...
The League of Conservation Voters Thursday launched a television ad campaign in Grand Junction, Pueblo, Colorado Springs and Denver blasting U.S. Rep. John Salazar...