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Anti-environmental group vows to fight for ‘God-given rights’ in wake of...
The combative head of an anti-environmentalist Washington, D.C. nonprofit with Colorado roots vowed on Thursday to appeal last week’s Montana Supreme Court ruling upholding the state’s nearly...
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Snow drought forces Colorado to face frightening new climate-change reality
Just a year after record snowfall throughout much of the Rocky Mountain West, the region is locked in a snow drought not seen since Jimmy Carter surrendered the White House to Ronald Reagan in the...
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Hickenlooper cautions against more local control over oil and gas drilling
Governor John Hickenlooper Thursday praised state oil and gas regulators for passing the toughest hydraulic fracturing chemical disclosure rule in the country and warned against proposed legislation...
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Oil and gas activist groups buoyed by Gunnison County District Court ruling
Grassroots citizen-activist groups seeking more local control of oil and gas drilling are touting a Gunnison County District Court decision earlier this month finding “there is no express or implied...
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Colorado lawmakers react to Obama rejection of fast-tracked Keystone XL
President Barack Obama today agreed with a U.S. State Department recommendation not to fast track the controversial Keystone XL pipeline that would move tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada to the Gulf...
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Obama touts record U.S. oil and gas production in wake of pipeline rejection
Rejecting both the Republican push for an accelerated Keystone XL oil pipeline and the GOP argument that he doesn’t care about jobs, President Barack Obama Wednesday touted his record of increased...
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State rep on school setbacks: ‘Good enough for pot shops, good enough for...
State Representative Matt Jones on Thursday linked the highly controversial oil and gas drilling process of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to the recent federal government crackdown on medical...
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How close is too close? Proposed law would increase oil and gas setbacks to...
Colorado Democrats have introduced a bill in the State Legislature that would require hydraulically fractured oil and gas wells to be set back at least 1,000 feet from any school or residence. House...
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In Colorado classrooms, climate change skepticism rising like ocean levels
Climate change skepticism is creeping into classrooms even as advocacy groups try to broaden their reach using new-school X Games athletes to spread the message to high schools students....
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Experts warn public policy must change in wake of wildfires
ASPEN — Public policy and political will must shift as dramatically as the winds that have whipped Colorado’s record wildfires, experts say, or the state’s residents will continue to pay a higher and...
View ArticleIn Garfield County, critics say ‘local control’ will just shift more power to...
RESIDENTS of the second-most drilled county in Colorado warn backers of eleven “local control” ballot questions to be careful what they wish for, because oil and gas money will funnel into local...
View ArticleGun debate still reverberating in key Western Slope Senate battle
EAGLE, Colo. – The talk out here in the sagebrush of state Senate District 5 – where Hunter S. Thompson used to blast away at TV sets and Alfred Packer used a pistol to procure his next meal — is not...
View ArticleBeauprez ‘gets it’ on secession, urban-rural rift, backers say
Supporters of a secession movement approved by voters in 5 of 11 rural Colorado counties last year haven’t been feeling the love from either major-party candidate for the governor’s office. But...
View ArticleGMO labeling tops brief list of Colorado ballot questions
Former Colorado lawmaker and Agriculture Commissioner Don Ament understands why people want more information about the genetically engineered food products they’re eating, but he doesn’t think GMO...
View ArticleWomen’s issues experts to Udall, Gardner: That’s all you got?
ASPEN – Two prominent women’s advocates expressed concern at a recent conference here that Colorado’s U.S. Senate race underlines a problem plaguing the politics of women’s rights. Although the race...
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Mountain GOP candidates dogged by ethics and Internet challenges
Conservative Republicans running for the state legislature in mountain districts have faced an array of ethical and technical difficulties this campaign season, including judgment calls glitches that...
View ArticleGOP candidates push hard for state control over federal lands
Republicans aren’t just gunning for control of both houses of the State Legislature on Tuesday, they’d also like state government to take over millions of acres of federal lands in Colorado to...
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More pot packaging battles loom as legislative session nears
Marijuana entrepreneur Nick Brown prefers education to regulation when it comes to the packaging, production and marketing of edible pot products so they stay out of the hands (and mouths) of kids....
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