Tag: Climate Change
Oh Canada! How Canada’s largest pension fund is financing drilling along...
It’s a familiar story: A deep-pocketed country develops oil fields in a heavily indebted nation with lax environmental regulations. The locals object, claiming that...
Bold climate-action legislation for Colorado nears rollout; Polis, Speaker Becker wrangle...
Colorado lawmakers are on the brink of introducing legislation that would set the state on course to cut planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions drastically over...
Guest Post: Trump threatens national security by denying climate change Meanwhile,...
Late last week, the White House took aim at a central and established tenet of national security: the threats posed by climate change. Our military and...
Get to know the Green New Deal, by the numbers The...
Not long after Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., was elected last November, she began gathering support for a “Green New Deal,” mobilizing young climate activists...
Guest Post: Secretary of the Interior – public citizen or...
The Coloradan nominated by President Trump to pick up the pieces from Ryan Zinke’s tumultuous tenure of the Department of Interior, David Bernhardt, knows...
Four seasons: Colorado water in a changing climate Part 1: The...
Editor’s Note: Over the next year, The Colorado Independent will examine, season by season, the effects climate change is having on the state’s water...
Jared Polis lays out policy priorities, with free kindergarten on top....
Like the man himself, Jared Polis's first-year agenda for Colorado is ambitious.
Fixes to a sputtering education system. Addressing climate change. Lowering health care costs....
Lake Dillon is warming, but its water quality remains OK, study...
A new environmental study has some rare good news for stressed Colorado water managers: Lake Dillon, the Summit County reservoir that supplies water to...
Feds set urgent deadline on Colorado River drought plan Interior Dept....
LAS VEGAS – Reforming western water policy has always been an exercise in political maneuvering, stop-and-start negotiations and bureaucratic delays. Progress comes slowly and...
As Trump administration skips U.N. climate talks in Poland, CSU delegation...
Shelby McClelland and Nycole Echeverria had just gotten off the plane from Denver to Katowice, Poland. The two Colorado State University graduate students had...