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Now We've Heard Udall Green groups announce support for Senate campaigns		24 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 1:00 PM on 24 Apr 2008 A coalition of large green groups has pledged to support Mark Udall, Tom Udall, and Jeanne Shaheen in their campaigns to become senators in 2008. Colorado Representative Mark Udall and his cousin, New Mexico Representative Tom Udall, will run for Senate seats in their respective states; Shaheen is the former governor of New Hampshire, and will run there. All three are Democrats. The green g ...
Topics: Colorado, elections, environmental movement, League of Conservation Voters, New Hampshire, New Mexico, news, politics, Sierra Club, state politics, US Senate (all these topics)

On the Ball: Swiftly running out of good sports headlines Sports continue to 'go green'	Sarah K. Burkhalter	04 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: China, Colorado, energy, Japan, sports, wind power (all these topics)

Smart grid to rock Boulder City selected for largest U.S. smart grid project	Patrick Mazza	18 Mar 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Colorado, energy, electricity grid (all these topics)

Braking News! Denver hopes to reduce car emissions by encouraging better driving		13 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 12:05 PM on 13 Mar 2008 The city of Denver has unveiled a "Driving Change" pilot program designed to reduce vehicle greenhouse-gas emissions by encouraging drivers to ease off the lead foot. Starting in May, 400 public and private Denver vehicles, including that of Mayor John Hickenlooper, will have a device installed to monitor time spent braking, idling, accelerating, and speeding. Analyzed res ...
Topics: cars, climate, Colorado, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, placemaking (all these topics)

Elk and Their Ilk Elk populations getting out of control in some national parks		12 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 1:46 PM on 12 Feb 2008 Forget hungry, hungry hippos -- here come the hungry, hungry elk. Three national parks in Colorado and the Dakotas are awash in antlered gluttons, at some places more than twice what's considered a preferable population. "Willow and aspen stands are declining [and] that deprives other species of habitat they need," says a spokesperson for Colorado's Rocky Mountain National ...
Topics: Colorado, habitat protection, national parks, news, North Dakota, South Dakota, wildlife (all these topics)

Put a grid on it	David Roberts	17 Jan 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Colorado, electricity grid, energy (all these topics)

The high costs of doing nothing, part III Climate change disrupts ecosystems that provide valuable services	Joseph Romm	16 Jan 2008	Gristmill

Topics: climate, climate change impacts, Colorado, deforestation (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	16 Jan 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Colorado, energy, politics, quotables, state politics (all these topics)

The Comment People Public overwhelmingly opposes drilling on Coloradan plateau, say activists		27 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 5:01 PM on 27 Nov 2007 Conservationists have analyzed public comments on a Bureau of Land Management proposal to drill for oil and gas on Colorado's Roan Plateau and have come up with a tally: seven comments for drilling; approximately 42,000 against. Hm -- guess it's not a consensus then. source:� The Daily Sentinel From the Archives Atlanta Paves. Housing slump is ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, Colorado, energy, grassroots activism, news, oil and gas drilling (all these topics)

With Friends Like These ... Bush administration push for drilling in Colorado angers GOP constituency		18 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 4:14 PM on 18 Sep 2007 Republicans in western Colorado, long a GOP stronghold, are losing patience with the Bush administration's relentless push for resource extraction in the state. According to a new report from the Wilderness Society, western Colorado currently has 4,500 oil and gas wells on federal public lands, and 22,000 more are in the proverbial pipeline. A total of 126,000 n ...
Topics: Colorado, energy, news, oil and gas drilling (all these topics)

Getting the Shaft Western U.S. littered with abandoned mines		12 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 10:29 AM on 12 Sep 2007 Earlier this month, two sisters fell into a mine shaft in Arizona while riding an all-terrain vehicle. It was a terrible tragedy, but, unfortunately, not an unexpected one: an estimated 500,000 abandoned mines litter the U.S., mostly in the West. Even though the oldest mines were closed almost a century ago, many are still leaching heavy metals into groundwater -- according to one expert, 40 percent of ...
Topics: Colorado, mining, news (all these topics)

Dropping Trout Feds trying to boost native fish populations stock Colorado waterways with wrong fish		06 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 11:57 AM on 06 Sep 2007 A 20-year effort by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to restore endangered native trout populations in Colorado would be commendable -- if they hadn't stocked some of the waterways with the wrong fish. sources:� Associated Press, Rocky Mountain News From the Archives EEStor Money. Startup says new technology will make gasoline obsolete ...
Topics: Colorado, dumbassery , news, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics)

Will That Cover My Three Vacation Homes? Aspen, Colo., unveils its own carbon-offsetting program		30 Aug 2007	News
Posted at 5:16 PM on 30 Aug 2007 Aspen, Colo., home of many insanely rich folk, has become the first municipality in the nation to sell its very own brand of carbon offsets. check out the offsets:� Canary Tags From the Archives Now That's What We Call Hospitality. Vietnam hospital waste turned into plastic utensils. Flooded With Remorse. Climate change could cause more floo ...
Topics: carbon offsets, climate, Colorado, news (all these topics)

Bad to the Roan BLM OKs drilling on Colorado's Roan Plateau, new grazing rules blocked		13 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
Bad to the Roan BLM OKs drilling on Colorado's Roan Plateau, new grazing rules blocked Steamrolling the opinions of various Colorado politicians, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management has OK'd oil and gas drilling on 73,602 acres of the Roan Plateau, known to be rich in both underground fossil fuels and aboveground wildlife. Two of Colorado's Democratic representatives had asked the BLM for a one-year ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, Colorado, oil and gas drilling (all these topics)

When the western gas boom goes boom Declining production and what comes next	Erik Hoffner	08 Jun 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Colorado, desertification, water crisis (all these topics)

Food and Punishment Colorado's inmates-as-farmworkers plan says plenty about our food culture	Tom Philpott	15 Mar 2007	Victual Reality
Last summer, the Colorado General Assembly passed some of the nation's most rigorous anti-immigrant policy laws. Debate was fierce -- but only because some GOP lawmakers fumed that the Democratic-engineered crackdown wasn't draconian enough. How times have changed. Essentially, the state's political elite -- backed editorially by The Denver Post -- took aim at its low-wage wo ...
Topics: ag policy, Colorado, food and agriculture, Victual Reality (all these topics)

Cheaper By the Ruzzin Voters in Boulder, Colo., will vote on carbon tax next week		02 Nov 2006	Daily Grist
Cheaper By the Ruzzin Voters in Boulder, Colo., will vote on carbon tax next week Next week, Boulder, Colo., will seek to become the first U.S. city to impose a carbon tax on homes and businesses. If the progressive hotspot's voters say yes, the per-kilowatt tax will raise the average home energy bill by less than $2 a month (businesses' fees will vary, depending on energy usage). Proceeds will go toward energy audits and energy-ef ...
Topics: climate, Colorado, news (all these topics)

When Guvs Try Enviros hope to make gains with gubernatorial races in key states	Amanda Griscom Little	19 Oct 2006	Muckraker
With Election Day just over two weeks away, Muckraker brings you part two of our roundup of gubernatorial races with important green angles. Last week, in part one, we chronicled the hottest campaigns along the Eastern seaboard. This week, we're briefing you on a few of the must-watch races in the Midwest and Pacific regions. Michigan: Jennifer Granholm (D) vs. Dick DeVos (R) Jenn ...
Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, Colorado, elections, Michigan, Muckraker, Ohio, Oregon, politics, state politics (all these topics)

Behind the Vail How the legendary ski town is going green	Tim Sprinkle	19 Oct 2006	Main Dish
Vail, Colo., is a town that's defined by winter, when tourists from around the world descend on the area's snow-covered slopes to ski, ride, and soak up the laid-back yet glitzy mountain lifestyle. But as the threat of global warming has begun to creep closer to the Colorado high country, Vail has been forced to develop another reputation, one based less on celebrity sightings and more on sustainable policy cho ...
Topics: climate, Colorado, outdoor recreation (all these topics)

Mouse pad State mulls fate of meadow mouse as development vultures lurk in the background	Kate Sheppard	14 Sep 2006	Gristmill

Topics: Colorado, endangered species, wildlife (all these topics)

Vail Hails Gales Vail Resorts to be second-biggest corporate wind-power buyer in U.S.		03 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Vail Hails Gales Vail Resorts to be second-biggest corporate wind-power buyer in U.S. Colorado-based ski-resort company (and one-time eco-vandal target) Vail Resorts announced this week that it will buy enough wind power to offset all of the electricity it uses at its five ski areas, as well as in its corporate offices and stores. The company's promise to purchase about 152,000 megawatt-hours of win ...
Topics: Colorado, energy, news, outdoor recreation, wind power (all these topics)

That Darn Pat Coal-fired cooperative coughs up cash to climate crank		28 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
That Darn Pat Coal-fired cooperative coughs up cash to climate crank Say you don't like the results of climate science. What to do? Us, we suffer from night terrors. But the Colorado-based Intermountain Rural Electric Association -- a group heavily invested in coal-burning utilities -- is going with the fossil-fuel industry's favorite alternate strategy: buy more favorable science! They've donated $100,000 to notorious climat ...
Topics: coal, Colorado, energy, news (all these topics)

Early warning system set up to detect global warming	Chris Schults	17 Jul 2006	Gristmill

Topics: climate, climate change impacts, Colorado, scientific research (all these topics)

Varmint Cong Organic farmers in Colorado ask state to blast rodents out of their holes		14 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
Varmint Cong Organic farmers in Colorado ask state to blast rodents out of their holes They say life imitates art, but until now, life had stubbornly refused to imitate Caddyshack. Behold! Organic farmers in Colorado have asked the state Division of Wildlife to look into controlling prairie dogs and other burrowing critters by ... blowing them up. Why? Because, in the immortal words of Carl Spackler, "a varmint will never qui ...
Topics: Colorado, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Sear in the Headlights Summer in Western U.S. is off to a hot, dry, fiery start		22 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Sear in the Headlights Summer in Western U.S. is off to a hot, dry, fiery start In Western states, wildfires and heat waves are getting an early start this year -- a pattern unsurprising to climate scientists, and likely to get worse. Wildfires have already burned more than 3 million acres, more than triple the average for this time of year. Meanwhile, a recent Denver heat wave was the earliest of the year since recordkeepin ...
Topics: climate, Colorado, news, West (all these topics)

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