As black smoke billowed from a massive fire at Pueblo’s EVRAZ steel mill, city officials issued an air quality shelter-in-place alert: “Go or stay inside, please shut your windows and turn off your air conditioner.”
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Heat Pumps are Essential for Colorado’s Climate and Public Health
Access to affordable and energy-efficient cooling is necessary for relief from extreme heat.
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Who Owns The West?
Increasingly, land is shifting into the hands of billionaires. By Jonathan Thompson, High Country News
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Nearly Half of CO Oil & Gas Wells Barely Produce Anything While Leaking Gas That Causes Climate Change and Health Issues
July was the hottest month in Earth’s history, largely due to human-caused global warming. Coloradans dealt with unhealthy air quality all month long as the state issued 14 ozone alert days during July. The Front Range regularly has some of the worst air quality in the country during the summer months because of the high density of vehicles, high temperatures, and oil and gas activity in the surrounding area.
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Drilled Dry: Boebert Pushes Gas Projects, Which Suck Millions of Gallons of Water From Her District
“When people ask what my top three issues are, I say water, water, water.”
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CO Communities That Already Host Air-Polluting Facilities Could Suffer Under Proposed Air Quality Rule, Say Environmentalists
On Monday, Colorado air quality regulators released the latest draft of rules intended to hold polluters across the state accountable for releasing harmful toxins into the air. Environmental activists worry that communities facing the greatest threat — where many high-polluting facilities exist — might be unduly harmed by allowances in the rules for companies to shift greenhouse gas emission reductions to other facilities they own.
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Polis Signs Scaled-Back Ozone Bill: Oil & Gas Industry Criticize, Enviro Activists Celebrate
Earlier this month, Gov. Jared Polis (D-CO) signed a bill into law that’s intended to decrease ozone pollution stemming from oil and gas production in Colorado and establish an interim legislative committee to investigate solutions to the poor air quality affecting parts of Colorado.
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Checking In On “Irresponsible” Oil & Gas Companies: State Holding Some Accountable, Activists Say There’s More To Be Done
It’s been over a year since Colorado passed rules intended to hold oil & gas operators accountable for plugging their wells once they’re finished with them.
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CO Oil & Gas Industry Celebrates Passage of Debt Deal, Citing Slashed Environmental Protections
6/3/23: Updated with comment from 350 Colorado.
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Report: CO Pension Fund Mostly Votes Against ESG Resolutions, Fails to Address Climate Change
A report released last week revealed that the Public Employees’ Retirement Association (PERA), Colorado’s pension fund for state workers, voted against 61% of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) resolutions proposed by companies it was invested in during the 2022 proxy season.