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Kicked in the Arson 'Eco-terrorists' indicted in connection to Vail ski-resort arson		22 May 2006	Daily Grist
Kicked in the Arson "Eco-terrorists" indicted in connection to Vail ski-resort arson Four people -- dubbed "eco-terrorists" by the authorities, who aren't at all trying to scare you -- were indicted Thursday and face eight counts of arson in connection to fires set at a Vail, Colo., ski resort in 1998. A communiqué apparently released by the arsonists said the fi ...
Topics: Colorado, Earth Liberation Front, environmental justice, news, politics (all these topics)

Pussy Galore The lynx returns to Colorado		21 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
Pussy Galore The lynx returns to Colorado After a deluge of depressing news about dying polar bears and baby walruses (who we love and would never, ever joke about), finally some good animal tidings! The fuzzy-wuzzy lynx is endangered in Colorado and threatened in 47 other states, but a Colorado Division of Wildlife program is making progress returning the wild cats to the state. Lynx disappeared from Colorado in 1973, thanks to p ...
Topics: Colorado, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Rocky Amountin' High Landowners awarded $554 million for nuke contamination from Rocky Flats		16 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
Rocky Amountin' High Landowners awarded $554 million for nuke contamination from Rocky Flats Thousands of Colorado downwinders got some vindication on Tuesday, when a jury ordered Dow Chemical and the former Rockwell International to pay $554 million in damages for plutonium contamination from Rocky Flats, a former nuclear weapons plant. It's the largest civil ver ...
Topics: Colorado, commercial and industry organizations, Department of Energy, news, nuclear power (all these topics)

Ski Bummer As snowy peaks get warmer, ski industry tries to stave off extinction	Daniel A. Shaw	07 Feb 2006	Main Dish
With the Olympics starting this week, all eyes are on the slopes of Turin. But skiing and snowboarding could disappear from our collective culture in about 50 years, if global-warming forecasts ring true. In a lot of popular ski areas, there simply won't be any snow. It's all downhill from here. Photo: stock.xchng. It's already happening in parts of Europe: They're wrapping glaciers in ...
Topics: California, climate, Colorado, Massachusetts, outdoor recreation, renewable energy (all these topics)

Sweet and Blowdown Wind-energy customers pay less than those buying fossil-fuel power		18 Oct 2005	Daily Grist
Sweet and Blowdown Wind-energy customers pay less than those buying fossil-fuel power Customers of Xcel Energy in Colorado who purchase wind power got a pleasant announcement last week: Not only would they not be paying a premium for their clean energy -- they would be paying less than customers getting electricity from natural gas and coal-power sources. Xcel subsequently signed up as many new wind-energy customers in ...
Topics: Colorado, energy, news, wind power (all these topics)

Aspen Backwards Colorado's ski industry says global warming won't stop the shredding		17 Oct 2005	Daily Grist
Aspen Backwards Colorado's ski industry says global warming won't stop the shredding Colorado's lucrative ski industry claims it's got no worries about global warming, saying the state's high altitudes and remarkably cold winters will keep things white and wonderful. Others think the sector's got its collective head stuck up its snowpack. "Heavens, I think that's shortsighted," said Idaho ski-industry consultan ...
Topics: Colorado, news, outdoor recreation (all these topics)

My Own Private Saudi Arabia Energy execs beg Congress to let them dig up the West for oil shale		24 Jun 2005	Daily Grist
My Own Private Saudi Arabia Energy execs beg Congress to let them dig up the West for oil shale "We can safely say of our future with regard to oil and gas, it has yet to see its brightest days," said Rep. James Gibbons (R-Nev.) in a House subcommittee meeting yesterday. We know what you're thinking: What the ... ? Well, apparently Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming are sitting on top of lots and ...
Topics: Colorado, energy, news, oil, politics, Utah, Wyoming (all these topics)

You Take 'em Both, and There You Have ... Um, Stapleton Denver neighborhood on former airport site exemplifies 'new urbanism'		02 Jun 2005	Daily Grist
You Take 'em Both, and There You Have ... Um, Stapleton Denver neighborhood on former airport site exemplifies "new urbanism" A new mixed-use development in Denver, built on the former site of Stapleton International Airport, is being touted as a model of "new urbanism." Stapleton's homes are situated close together, with garages in back and porches in front, creating walkable neighborhoods, and ...
Topics: business, Colorado, green living, news (all these topics)

Wait -- They Drilled for Gas With a Nuclear Bomb?! Oil company hopes to drill near nuclear-blast cavity in Colorado		09 May 2005	Daily Grist
Wait -- They Drilled for Gas With a Nuclear Bomb?! Oil company hopes to drill near nuclear-blast cavity in Colorado Some 36 years ago, the Atomic Energy Commission and a Texas oil company put a nuclear bomb in an 8,000-foot shaft on Colorado's energy-rich Western Slope and detonated it, hoping to reach a reserve of natural gas lying beneath the subterranean rock. T ...
Topics: business, Colorado, energy, mining and drilling, natural gas, news, nuclear power, oil (all these topics)

Jeepers Creepers	Sarah van Schagen	28 Mar 2005	Gristmill
Hordes of four-wheel-drive enthusiasts, and their respective four-wheel-driving monsters, have descended -- or rather off-roaded -- into the red rocks of Moab, Colo., for the 39th annual Jeep Safari. The event began with a few Jeep drivers looking for a good time and has become an event complete with vendors, parades, and, of course, a whole lot of four-wheelin' fun. Some 20,000 to 30,000 off-roadies were in Moab this weekend, part of the week-long festivities that ...
Topics: cars, Colorado (all these topics)

Things to Do in Denver When You're Ill Newmont Mining fights off lawsuit over mercury pollution in Peru		14 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Things to Do in Denver When You're Ill Newmont Mining fights off lawsuit over mercury pollution in Peru Continuing its energetic pursuit of the Worst Global Corporate Citizen Award, Denver-based Newmont Mining Corp. is headed into legal battle with Peruvian peasants suffering long-term health consequences from mercury contamination around one of the company's gold mines. In June of 2000, a truck carrying ...
Topics: Colorado, mining and drilling, news, Peru, toxics (all these topics)

The Rocky Flats Horror Picture Show Ex-FBI agent charges feds with radioactive coverup at Rocky Flats	Amanda Griscom Little	21 Jan 2005	Muckraker
The plotline sounds as absurd as a made-for-TV movie: An FBI agent exposes deadly contamination at an old nuclear-weapons plant, but the federal government conceals the findings. Years later, Congress votes to convert the tract into a wildlife refuge and open it to school field trips and public recreation. The site becomes a poster child for eco-friendly nucl ...
Topics: Colorado, Department of Energy, Department of Justice, Muckraker, politics, toxics, waste (all these topics)

Colorado Rocky Mountain High Colorado passes renewable-energy initiative		03 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Colorado Rocky Mountain High Colorado passes renewable-energy initiative Colorado voters approved Amendment 37 yesterday, marking the first statewide renewable-energy portfolio standard in the U.S. to come directly from a popular vote rather than through the legislature. The state's largest utilities will now be required to generate 3 percent of their electricity from renewable sources by 2007, and 10 percent by 2015. ...
Topics: Colorado, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Mustang Silly Herd of Wild Horses Gets in Way of Bush Admin's Drilling Plans		13 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Mustang Silly Herd of Wild Horses Gets in Way of Bush Admin's Drilling Plans It may come as a surprise to some that the U.S. is still home to about 27,000 wild, free-roaming mustangs, not yet driven from their open ranges by human development. But just wait. The Bureau of Land Management is set to round up one of Colorado's five remaining mustang herds and remove it from its terrain in ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, Colorado, mining and drilling, wildlife (all these topics)

Bad Kitty! New Book Says a Romantic View of Nature Could Come Back to Bite Us		20 Jan 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: Colorado, green living, wildlife (all these topics)

A-lohas		24 Jul 2003	Daily Grist
A-lohas Chances are you've never heard of "Lohas" -- which is funny, because if you're a regular reader of Grist, the odds are pretty decent that the word applies to you. Don't worry, we're not calling you a bad name; the term stands for "lifestyles of health and sustainability" and was coined a few years back by marketers to define a growing niche of goods and services designed to attract eco-friendly ...
Topics: Colorado, education, green living (all these topics)

High and Dry Colorado's proposed water projects could sink the environment	Joshua Zaffos, Writers on the Range	29 Apr 2003	Main Dish
This March, the Denver Broncos football team agreed to spend $40 million on a seven-year contract with its new quarterback, Jake Plummer. Since winning two Super Bowls at the end of the 1990s, the Broncos have struggled just to make the playoffs. At his introductory press conference, Plummer predicted, "Winning a Super Bowl is what I believe we are going to do here.& ...
Topics: business, Colorado, Colorado River, food and agriculture, politics, rivers and watersheds, water conflicts, water pollution (all these topics)

High and Dry		29 Apr 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: Colorado, Colorado River, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

Rose-colorado Glasses		18 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Rose-colorado Glasses Colorado residents overwhelmingly support the use of renewable resources over fossil fuels, according to a new study by the Wells Fargo Public Opinion Research Program of the University of Colorado at Denver. Three out of every four of the survey's respondents said the state should meet its energy demands through boosting efficiency rather than increasing gen ...
Topics: Colorado, energy, green living, hydropower, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

When Nature Emails		14 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
When Nature Emails Ah, wilderness -- the chirping of birds, the burbling of creeks, the melodic chime announcing that new mail has just arrived in your inbox. Yep, that's right -- or it will be if the Colorado Department of Natural Resources has its way. In an effort to boost revenue in the middle of a massive budget shortfall, the DNR plans to make electrical outlets an ...
Topics: business, Colorado, Department of Natural Resources, outdoor recreation, wilderness (all these topics)

The Fire Down Below		14 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
The Fire Down Below Forget about car emissions for a moment; coal fires, hundreds of which are raging out of control around the world, pump so much carbon dioxide and other pollutants into the atmosphere that researchers at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science yesterday called them a "global catastrophe." Coal fires burn both ...
Topics: China, Colorado, energy, India, Indonesia, Pennsylvania, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Smart Attack		10 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Smart Attack Smart-growth policies, designed to put a damper on runaway development and preserve local character, have recently come under attack in a handful of U.S. communities. In Loudon County, Va., on the outskirts of Washington, D.C., nearly 200 lawsuits were filed last week against the county's growth-control policies. Also last week, the mayo ...
Topics: Colorado, commercial and industry organizations, environmental justice, placemaking, politics, Virginia (all these topics)

Range Bedfellows		16 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Range Bedfellows Energy exploration has been part of Western landscape and culture for decades -- but it seems the thrill of the drill may finally be wearing off. As the Bush administration pushes for further exploitation of Western resources (such as coal-bed methane mining in Wyoming and Montana an ...
Topics: Colorado, energy, food and agriculture, mining and drilling, Montana, New Mexico, North America, politics, ranching, renewable energy, West ... (all these topics)

Prairie Dogged		18 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Prairie Dogged Faced with drought and plunging profits, Colorado farmers are under growing financial pressure to hawk their land to developers. Between 1993 and 2001, about 1.5 million acres of farmland in the state were put on the market and developed; 300,000 of the acres were sold in 2001 as a drought began to take hold. State officials are scrambling to come up with solutions that w ...
Topics: Colorado, dams, energy, food and agriculture, logging, placemaking (all these topics)

The Pardners' Tale		15 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
The Pardners' Tale Cowboys and environmentalists unite! The unlikely amigos are banding together to try to keep natural gas drillers away from ranches on public land in the San Juan Basin in northwestern New Mexico and southwestern Colorado. Yesterday morning, they blocked drilling crews from entering four ranches, arguing that ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, Colorado, energy, erosion, mining and drilling, New Mexico, politics, ranching, renewable energy (all these topics)

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