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Move BLM headquarters to Colorado? Environmental groups pan proposal

WASHINGTON -- A majority of Colorado’s Congress members support a plan to move the national headquarters of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to...

Gold King Mine bleeds $100,000 daily; the leak’s still not fixed

The snow is beginning to fly in Silverton's high country, and a temporary water treatment plant has been completed –  in the nick of...

Unusual rise in earthquakes in middle of country tied to disposal...

Scientists say a spate of earthquakes in the middle of the United States is “almost certainly” man-made. Since 2001, the average number of 3.0-or-greater earthquakes each year spiked significantly, culminating in a six-fold increase in 2011 over 20th century levels.

Oklahoma earthquakes raise more questions about hydrofracking, injection wells

Another swarm of earthquakes in an unusual part of the country has generated aftershocks of debate about whether the oil and gas drilling process called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is to blame.

Salazar: Bleak USGS Rocky Mountain water report shows ‘real impacts of...

There’s more bad news for water watchers in the Rocky Mountain West, where record snowpack from last winter has led to a dangerous runoff in some places, including Colorado’s Western Slope. The bad news is this season is apparently a statistical blip in a 30-year historical decline in Rocky Mountain snowpack, which provide between 60 and 80 percent of the water supply for the 70 million people living in the western United States.
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