Environment - The Journal

City of Durango adopts new landscaping rules limiting ‘nonfunctional turf’

Code applies to future commercial, large residential projects

DATE: Dec 4, 2025 | CATEGORY: Local News

Mexican gray wolf ‘Taylor’ crosses I-40 for the third time

Wildlife advocates say the wolf likely searching for a mate

DATE: Nov 25, 2025 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

‘Water justice’ delivered to Animas River via Durango resolution

‘Project shows the power of a diverse group of people collaborating together on an issue they care about’

DATE: Nov 20, 2025 | CATEGORY: Local News

Former New Mexico lawmaker nominated to lead Bureau of Land Management

The agency manages about 10% of land in the U.S.

DATE: Nov 6, 2025 | CATEGORY: AP New Mexico

Bird Conservancy of the Rockies loses federal grants over mysterious ‘DEI’ accusations

Nonprofit based at Barr Lake lost $1.4M budgeted to support cooperative research with federal agencies, and to match state and private grants

DATE: Oct 26, 2025 | CATEGORY: Regional News

1 in 3 new cars sold in Colorado last quarter were electric as buyers chased expiring tax credits

Consumers scrambled to buy before a $7,500 federal credit expired on Sept. 30

DATE: Oct 23, 2025 | CATEGORY: Local News

New Mexico officials to hold update on San Juan generating station cleanup

PNM pollution cleanup plan delayed until November

DATE: Oct 6, 2025 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Colorado River Program’s new director ‘cautiously hopeful’ about interstate negotiations

Celene Hawkins practiced in tribal nation projects, conservation efforts

DATE: Aug 22, 2025 | CATEGORY: Local News

Marginal gas wells to be plugged throughout Colorado

State grant will reimburse operators for costs

DATE: Aug 15, 2025 | CATEGORY: Local News

Mature pines protected in logging agreement

The San Juan Citizens Alliance and Center for Biological Diversity reached an agreement with the U.S. Forest Service to protect older pine trees during a long-awaited timber operation that led to litigation

DATE: Jul 21, 2025 | CATEGORY: Local News

Advocates: Mount Cristo Rey wall will worsen migrant deaths, erosion, habitat loss

Public comment on the federal border project ends July 3

DATE: Jul 3, 2025 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Report claiming environmental policies steal billions from Colorado’s economy based on bad math, advocates say

Study by the conservative Common Sense Institute pegs everything from lost coal jobs to higher utility bills on state regulations

DATE: May 2, 2025 | CATEGORY: Regional News