EPA Proposes Life-Saving Soot Pollution Standards
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency put forth updated air quality standards for deadly "soot" pollution.
View ArticleMore Than 2 Million Comments Nationally and Almost 50,000 in Colorado...
Colorado conservation groups supporting clean air safeguards announced they have collected almost 50,000 comments from Coloradans and a record two million nationwide in support of the Environmental...
View ArticleHouse Appropriations Committee Votes for Dirty Water and a Slew of Damaging...
Washington, DC--Today, the House Appropriations Committee passed by a 26-19 vote the Interior and Environment Appropriations bill. The bill would slash EPA’s budget by about a fifth for fiscal year...
View Article"When It Rains, It Pours"
Global warming is happening now and its effects are being felt in the United States and around the world. Among the expected consequences of global warming is an increase in the heaviest rain and snow...
View ArticleRocky Mountains at risk, Colorado wilderness protections attacked
Environment Colorado released a new report today revealing that pristine areas across the Rocky Mountains including Rocky Mountain National Park and hundred of miles of Colorado wilderness and Roadless...
View ArticleTrashing Our Treasures
National parks, forests and public lands are essential for maintaining healthy ecosystems, safeguarding our waterways, cleaning up the air we breathe, protecting wildlife habitat, and providing...
View ArticleThe Costs of Fracking: Environment Colorado Documents the Dollars Drained by...
Denver, CO: Firing a new salvo in the ongoing debate over the gas drilling practice known as fracking, Environment Colorado Research & Policy Center released a report today documenting a wide range...
View ArticleReport: The Costs of Fracking
Over the past decade, the oil and gas industry has fused two technologies—hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling—to unlock new supplies of fossil fuels in underground rock formations across the...
View ArticleWind Power for a Cleaner America
America has more than doubled its use of wind power since the beginning of 2008 and we are starting to reap the environmental rewards. Wind energy now displaces about 68 million metric tons of global...
View Article1 out of 4 Coloradans Live in Areas Hit by Recent Weather Disasters; New...
Environment Colorado Research & Policy Center released a new report about extreme weather events in Colorado and the extent to which local communities are impacted by these events. The report...
View ArticleA Million Solar Roofs for Colorado
As one of the sunniest states in the country, Colorado has great potential for solar energy. By 2030, Colorado could install solar energy capacity equivalent to that of a million solar...
View ArticleManitou Springs Feeling the Heat of Global Warming Pollution from Power Plants
A new Environment Colorado Research and Policy Center report finds that power plants are Colorado's single largest source of carbon pollution. The report comes three days before the Obama...
View ArticleFracking by the Numbers
Over the past decade, the oil and gas indus- try has fused two technologies—hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling—in a highly polluting effort to unlock oil and gas in underground rock...
View Article30,000 Coloradans Petition Xcel Energy to Withdraw Anti-Solar Proposal
Nearly 300 concerned Coloradans converged in Denver to oppose a proposal from Xcel Energy to roll back one of the state’s most successful solar programs. The energetic crowd braved wintery temperatures...
View ArticleRocky Mountains at risk, Colorado wilderness protections attacked
Environment Colorado released a new report today revealing that pristine areas across the Rocky Mountains including Rocky Mountain National Park and hundred of miles of Colorado wilderness and Roadless...
View ArticleTrashing Our Treasures
National parks, forests and public lands are essential for maintaining healthy ecosystems, safeguarding our waterways, cleaning up the air we breathe, protecting wildlife habitat, and providing...
View ArticleRocky Mountains at risk, Colorado wilderness protections attacked
Environment Colorado released a new report today revealing that pristine areas across the Rocky Mountains including Rocky Mountain National Park and hundred of miles of Colorado wilderness and Roadless...
View ArticleTrashing Our Treasures
National parks, forests and public lands are essential for maintaining healthy ecosystems, safeguarding our waterways, cleaning up the air we breathe, protecting wildlife habitat, and providing...
View ArticleRocky Mountains at risk, Colorado wilderness protections attacked
Environment Colorado released a new report today revealing that pristine areas across the Rocky Mountains including Rocky Mountain National Park and hundred of miles of Colorado wilderness and Roadless...
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