Colorado utilities regulators will consider the new plan, which was revised in hopes of capturing lucrative renewable energy credits while slashing greenhouse gas emissions
Colorado River Drought Task Force has worked up recommendations for protecting rivers and wildlife habitat, fixing leaking water delivery systems and adding flexibility to shared water programs
This story originally appeared at Stateline. Earlier this year, the U.S. Supreme Court stripped federal oversight from millions of acres of wetlands long protected under the Clean Water Act. Now, erecting safeguards to ensure those waters are not polluted, drained or filled in by developers falls to the states. They’re finding that it’s not easy. “States and tribes already […]
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The Yellow Barn Farm just north of Boulder was once a thriving equestrian center. Now it’s an incubation site for all kinds of cultural and agricultural experiments.
Texas had nearly a third of the contaminated wells, with 909. Researchers recorded clusters of tainted wells in both urban and rural areas, from Riverside County and Sacramento in California to Rapid City, South Dakota, and Helena, Montana.
A geothermal test well drilled in Carbondale with a federal grant yields promising results for next-gen application of ancient technology
Heather Brubaker had a sprawling yard of Kentucky bluegrass at her home in Longmont. Mowing the turf took her more than two hours. During summer, her monthly water bill jumped to $400. To what good purpose, she asked herself. “It’s not really doing anything for anybody. And the grass is not native to Colorado,” she […]
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In the Front Range, the onset of winter offers a seasonal reprieve from the region’s poor air quality. Fewer hot, sunny days means less ground-level ozone, and more precipitation reduces the likelihood of wildfire smoke. But despite the absence of frequent regional air quality warnings, winter does mark an uptick in a pervasive source of […]
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Colorado’s transportation sector is the state’s largest single source of planet-warming emissions.
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