Today’s shift to EVs and a long-ago motorcycle ride
Ray E. Rieke (the author's grandfather) at left, and his brother Henry Rieke at right, with Lehman Lykou, the author's grandfather’s traveling companion to San Francisco. After a few days at the...
View ArticleCompeting state waters protection bills move through Colorado Legislature
A Sandhill Crane performs a ritual mating dance as tens of thousands cranes fly in at sunset to roost for the night in the wetlands of the Monte Vista Wildlife Refuge on March 8, 2008 in Monte Vista,...
View ArticleColorado lawmakers to drop controversial RTD board changes from transit...
An RTD light-rail train travels south along Santa Fe Drive in Denver on June 29, 2023. (Chase Woodruff/Colorado Newsline)Colorado lawmakers are hitting the brakes on a controversial overhaul of the...
View ArticleBLM to finalize rule allowing federal leases targeted at protection of...
The Powderhorn Wilderness, most of which is managed by the Bureau of Land Managed, is at the northern part of the San Juan Mountains. (Bob Wick/BLM/Public Domain Mark 1.0)The Bureau of Land Management...
View ArticleWe must buckle down on major polluters in Colorado
A flare stack at the Suncor oil refinery in Commerce City on Feb. 20, 2022. (Quentin Young/Colorado Newsline)Have you had enough yet? The oil and gas industry is drowning us in ads where it plays the...
View ArticleHere are ways you can filter out harmful ‘forever chemicals’ at home
(Getty Images)This story originally appeared in The Conversation. Chemists invented PFAS in the 1930s to make life easier: Nonstick pans, waterproof clothing, grease-resistant food packaging and...
View ArticleHousehold solar in Colorado gets boost from federal grants announced on Earth...
(Getty Images)The Colorado Energy Office and the Oweesta Corporation, a Longmont-based tribal nonprofit, will each receive $156 million from the Environmental Protection Agency to help low- and...
View ArticleYucca 2025
View to the south of Yucca Mountain crest showing coring activities in 2006. (Courtesy of U.S. Department of Energy)This commentary originally appeared in the Nevada Current. Some Republicans in the...
View ArticleA new era for environmental conservation in Colorado
Looking south on Bureau of Land Management land towards Blanca Peak in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of Colorado. (Courtesy of EcoFLight)A milestone was achieved in environmental conservation this...
View ArticleNew EPA rules will force fossil fuel power plants to cut pollution
AES Indiana’s Petersburg Generating Station in Petersburg, Indiana, has been burning coal since the 1960s but will shutter all of its coal-firing units over the next few years. The U.S. Environmental...
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