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The EPA has paused enforcing air quality laws. Colorado regulators say...

State health officials say they’re trying to stay the course on regulating air and water pollution during the COVID-19 pandemic even as the Environmental...

Colorado will fight Trump administration’s rollback to vehicle emissions standards Emissions...

Colorado’s Attorney General Phil Weiser said on Tuesday he plans to sue the Trump administration over its new rule undoing Obama-era vehicle emissions standards.  The...

Suncor reports another unintentional chemical release The equipment failure comes after...

At about 5:40 p.m. on Tuesday, an orange plume spewed from the stacks at the Suncor oil refinery in Commerce City due to an...

In wake of Suncor settlement, lawmakers double down on toxic emissions...

State air regulators last week reached a $9 million settlement with Suncor, the owner of the oil refinery in Commerce City, for violating the...

‘Real rush’ of Trump rules expected ahead of 2020 election The...

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is preparing to finalize a host of high-profile rules in 2020, including policies that will impact everything from auto...

News Poetry: Of Diesels and Subterfuge

Of Diesels and Subterfuge Ordinary Tuesday, meaning evil & good are pulling on different ends of the same serpent. I am hardly bothered by their charade anymore. I’ve got...

More than 2 million comments collected in support of EPA’s new...

Conservation groups announced Thursday that they have collected more than 2 million comments — almost 50,000 of them from Coloradans — supporting this week's landmark ruling by a federal appeals court that upheld the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed rules for greenhouse gases.

Fracking operation in Erie begins near two elementary schools, wakes up...

ERIE — Flaggers in orange vests stopped traffic on the parkway as a convoy of semi-trailer trucks rumbled toward Red Hawk Elementary this week hauling sound barriers to muffle a gas extraction project in this once quiet neighborhood that has left many parents, teachers and residents vexed.

Utility, leery of EPA, eyes Wyoming’s first natural gas power plant...

Black Hills Power, a South Dakota utility with offices in Denver, filed papers Tuesday to shut down three aging coal-fired power plants in Wyoming and build a new natural gas-powered plant in Cheyenne – the first of its kind in the coal-dominated state.

VIDEO: Fracking sand air emissions caught on tape in Garfield County

Citizen activists in the natural gas drilling hotspot of western Garfield County, Colo., apparently caught Halliburton employees on tape working in and around a cloud of hydraulic fracturing sand emanating from tanker trucks near a Williams natural gas well pad in Parachute last week.
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