Can Colorado achieve its 50% economy wide emissions reductions by 2030.? Yes, probably, say a team of RMI researchers. Much depends upon new rules created by a handful of state agencies.
Film about Suncor Refinery shown in Commerce City, Denver pulls trigger on 12+ solar projects, Tri-State G&T adds innovation officer, and new Colorado board named.
A new report points out that water infrastructure and systems for the 20th century climate will need to be juggled in the coming time of low- and no-snow winters.
A compromise proposal would see Colorado’s last coal plant closing in 2034. Some think Comanche 3 should close much sooner, maybe even 2027.
The death of Greg Hobbs causes me to celebrate two sides of this former state justice: his work as a lawyer specializing in water and his heart as a poet of mountains and plains.
With covid at its back, Boulder dramatically reduced emissions in 2020. Despite that gain, it will have to pick up its pace to achieve its 2030 emission goals.
Locavore eating, if honorable in intent, has limits. So does the idea of local energy production. Microgrids will have their place, but so will imported energy.
A warming, drying West will need a better understanding of the dynamics of runoff from mountain topography. Research at Crested Butte hopes to deliver answers.
Heat waves, bad air, flash floods, debris flows and drought—these were separate but interrelated parts of climate change in Colorado and beyond during 2021.
A visit to where the compact was conceived in New Mexico in 1922 provokes questions about whether the agreement needs to be remodeled—or razed.
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