Better ozone ranking, but still nothing to brag about
Metropolitan Denver in 2020 improved ozone levels over the previous three years but remained the 8th most ozone-polluted metro area in the United States.
Metropolitan Denver in 2020 improved ozone levels over the previous three years but remained the 8th most ozone-polluted metro area in the United States.
United Mine Workers says change has come, but it wants a just transition for coal workers and investment in research into carbon capture technology.
Two teams have split $15 million in XPrize money for creating ways to sequester carbon dioxide emissions in concrete. One used Wyoming’s Integrated Test Center.
A bill introduced by a Colorado legislator seeks to gently begin escorting methane to the door of buildings, a move that a new UN report says is badly needed.
Biden climate advisor Gina McCarthy will launch the 21st Century Energy Transition Symposium on May 4-5. There’s something to interest almost everyone.
A letter signed by electrical coops in Colorado and New Mexico calls for a clean electricity standard among a broad suite of regulatory and legislative policies.
George Sibley says worried debate in Colorado and other upper-basin states about how to avoid a Colorado River Compact curtailment is badly misplaced.
A survey conducted by an energy advocacy group found evidence that Colorado may soon see widespread adoption of all-electric homes in new construction.
Drought, as we understand the word, doesn’t explain the diminished Colorado River flows. But what word better describes this steady disappointment in snowpack?
Tri-State G&T gets another rating slip, this time by an analyst who cites the requests by 7 member cooperatives for buy-out numbers. Two coops have already left.
Taos-based Kit Carson Electric went out on its own in 2016 and has never looked back. The latest deal will give it 100% daytime solar by 2022—and storage, too.
Southern Ute Indian Tribe Growth Fund is involved in $500 million carbon-capture venture in southwest Colorado. If it goes forward, it will be a big, big deal.
Corporate sustainability efforts sound good but are actually guilty of complicity with fossil fuel companies, says “Getting Green Done” author Auden Schendler.
Demand for natural gas in buildings would be further crimped if a bill considered in Colorado gets passed. One provision puts a social cost on methane.
Holy Cross Energy takes a small but strategic step on its journey toward resilience and 100% decarbonization with a deal for a solar-plus-storage project.
In Colorado, agriculture is often conflated with cows. The meatless day proclaimed by Gov. Jared Polis predictably drew loud protests. Was he onto something?
Wyoming legislators take aim at Colorado’s decarbonization with a $1.2 million legal fund. The nexus for this potential lawsuit will be Laramie River Station.
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser talks about state government innovations energy and climate policy and the conflicts with the Trump administration.
Major environmental groups have chosen to remain silent as a legislator introduces bill to study community choice aggregation.
Worried that Colorado has moved too slowly in decarbonizing, environmentalists are behind a bill that would create more structure, authority, and deadlines.