Environmental Issue

Group campaigns for climate discussion in Cortez

Film, essay contest, rally planned during April

DATE: Apr 11, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Colorado heads toward a water and budget crisis, officials say

Growing population and shrinking oil and gas revenues make for trouble

DATE: Apr 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

What the Navajo Generating Station will leave behind

The smokestacks of the Navajo Generation Station rise 775 feet from the sere landscape of the Navajo Nation in northern Arizona, just three miles away from the serpentine, stagnant blue woun...

DATE: Mar 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: State Nation World

Invasive plant spreads in Utah’s wetlands

Battling a nonnative reed to protect Great Salt Lake bird habitat

DATE: Mar 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Researchers flock to Lower Dolores for ecological studies

Researchers flock to Lower Dolores in high-water year

DATE: Mar 21, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Why are fire seasons longer? People.

Illegal campfires, cigarette butts and other accidental ignitions have lengthened the wildfire season

DATE: Mar 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Hickenlooper recommends Superfund listing for mine sites around Silverton

‘The end of one process and the start of a much longer one’

DATE: Mar 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

La Plata steps up mine tests

Trace amounts of uranium detected

DATE: Mar 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Fort Lewis College beats emissions-reduction goal

School exceeds first benchmark of 20 percent reduction

DATE: Mar 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Education

State disputes key part of EPA’s Gold King report

State officials did not sign off on plan, according to letter

DATE: Mar 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

EPA likely not prepared Gold King Mine blowout

Agency releases redacted documents

DATE: Mar 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Sediment issues a big uncertainty

As communities along the Animas River continue to wonder about long-term consequences of the Gold King Mine spill, one of the biggest questions remaining is the orange sediment lying along r...

DATE: Mar 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

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