Tag: conservation colorado
Catching raindrops (and not a lick of trouble with the law)
Will lawmakers finally let Colorado residents capture rainwater in their own yards?
Roan Plateau drilling deal hailed as win-win
FRISCO, Colo. — A 15 year battle over fossil fuel drilling on northwest Colorado’s remote and rugged Roan Plateau ended last week with the type of compromise that’s rare in energy showdowns.
Get Them All Out: Colorado Dems bet big on ground game
TEN miles west of Denver, Shawna Fritzler’s upper-middle-class development blooms on a rural two-lane road peppered by occasional crumbling farmhouses. This conservative hamlet in...
Air-quality commissioners stand strong, adopt tough new rules
"The companies will use these rules to make improvements that they'll tout in years to come."
Colorado farmers join fight for tougher air quality rules
DENVER -- Farmers are joining a growing chorus in Colorado calling new proposed state air-quality rules weak and inadequate to address ozone levels that have spiked over the last half decade in the state as gas drilling has spread across the northern Front Range.
The creeping green mainstream
I was called for jury duty a few weeks ago. The weekend before, I spoke with a friend who’s a prosecutor about what in...
As Salazar Heads Back to Colorado, Friends and Foes Reflect on...
Like any good -- or bad -- Secretary of the Interior, Colorado’s Ken Salazar will leave Washington in a few weeks with a long list of both friends and enemies. Thing is though, they’re pretty much the same friends and enemies he had when he got there.