Environment - The Journal

Bennet Introduces ‘Protect the West’ Act to address wildfires and drought

Legislation aims to invest in the environment with sustainable financial efforts

DATE: Mar 1, 2023 | CATEGORY: Local News

Colorado representative, senators want $60B to reduce fire risk, restore Western land

The Protect the West Act is sponsored by Sens. Bennet and Hickenlooper and Rep. Jason Crow

DATE: Mar 1, 2023 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado’s air pollution permitting process may get stricter

Lawmakers, environmental groups say state agencies move too slow while ozone violations pile up

DATE: Feb 28, 2023 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Insurance companies may let Coloradans replace broken gas appliances with electric models

A bill in the legislature proposes home warranty owners be allowed to make the switch.

DATE: Feb 27, 2023 | CATEGORY: Regional News

The government will pay you $30 an hour to sort through Telluride’s trash

Effort will help towns figure out how to change what people toss and why

DATE: Feb 24, 2023 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Upper Colorado River states land $125 million for pilot conservation program amid drought crisis

The major expansion of a previous experiment will be one of Colorado’s biggest contributions to emergency use cuts on the troubled waterway

DATE: Feb 14, 2023 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Interior secretary hires Native American as legal counsel

SANTA FE – A Native American attorney who oversaw New Mexico's Indian Affairs Department has been tapped to serve as a top legal adviser to U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Deb Haal...

DATE: Feb 13, 2023 | CATEGORY: AP New Mexico

‘Not an object to be bartered,’ the Rio Grande is lifeblood for the land

As New Mexico’s largest river dries, pueblos work to preserve it – and to establish their rights

DATE: Feb 13, 2023 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Fossil fuel drilling threatens air and wildlife in national parks, advocacy group finds

A methane cloud covering more than 1,200 square miles including Colorado said to have formed over four parks in West

DATE: Feb 13, 2023 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Two wolves captured, collared by Colorado wildlife biologists in North Park

The two males, the only GPS-tracked wolves in Colorado, will provide CPW with insight on future wolf behavior in the state

DATE: Feb 6, 2023 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Drought, plague and fire: What the Rio Grande National Forest is up against

There’s no certainty swaths of beetle-bitten trees will recover over burn scars

DATE: Feb 1, 2023 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Emails reveal tensions in Colorado River talks

In emails obtained by The Associated Press, one water manager said, ‘We're all headed to a very dark place.’

DATE: Jan 30, 2023 | CATEGORY: Regional News