- The expansion of the Mid-Continent Quarry is seen as one of the company's attempts to save itself.
- The Bureau of Land Management almost decided not to do the environmental assessment.
- The letter at the Sustainable Denver Summit announced a climate emergency and issued an apology for allowing oil and gas company Suncor to sponsor the event. It was all fake.
- There’s disagreement in the scientific community over researchers supporting or participating in displays of activism.
- It's not over yet for western Colorado.
- A proposal would balloon an existing 15-acre quarry to 320 acres and drastically increase the activity on site.
- Some voters and environmental groups have concerns about how the tax money could be spent.
- Colorado’s long-awaited and newly released 380-page report on the health impacts of oil and gas operations confirmed what many Colorado residents who live near the sites have suspected for years: State public health researchers found that emissions near drilling and hydraulic fracturing sites can cause negative health impacts.
- The study speaks to the risk of health impacts from being near a single well pad and didn’t study the potential impacts of proximity to multiple well pads.
- Proposition DD also creates a 10 percent tax on casinos’ house winnings that would largely benefit Colorado’s Water Plan.
- William Perry Pendley has called climate believers "kooks" and advocated for the selling off of public lands before his appointment at the BLM.
- “This is how taxation rolls in Colorado.
- Over the last decade, Colorado saw three times as many record daily high temperatures compared to lows.
- "Here in Colorado, as far as air quality concerns go, ozone is our largest pollutant of concern," said lead researcher Kaitlin Urso.
- The school walk-out and march kicked off a week of action around climate change.
- Trump's move could upset states’ years-long legislative push for automakers to adopt more fuel-efficient cars.
