- Last year, the federal government ordered emergency water releases from Blue Mesa to help protect Lake Powell. There’s worry that will happen again, so the marinas will stay closed.
- The money would help the Rio Grande and Republican River basins meet state groundwater sustainability deadlines.
- And the bills that didn't get passed.
- Lake Powell is expected to only get 60 percent of the water that usually flows into the reservoir during the season.
- An extra million acre-feet of water will be kept in Lake Powell to prop it up, protect hydropower production and buy time for additional action in the Colorado River basin.
- Alease “Aloe” Lee, the agency’s statewide partnership coordinator, says the director should be fired
- The U.S. Bureau of Land Management approved less than 5 percent of the federal acres that had originally been nominated for drilling in Colorado.
- Artist Chris Erickson's "Melting Gondola" sculpture aims to draw attention to how climate change is affecting the ski industry and mountain communities.
- The report highlights the threat climate change and outdated water management pose to the millions of people who rely on the Colorado River.
- Federal data has forecasted statewide streamflow to be 86 percent of average for the 2022 season.
- Communities in the San Luis Valley worry how pumping water out could impact ranchers and farmers, as well as the wetlands that migratory sandhill cranes visit.
- Water from Colorado’s Blue Mesa reservoir was sent to Lake Powell in the summer of 2021. It was an emergency move to help the second-largest reservoir in the U.S. keep producing hydropower.
- Since the decline of coal in Western Colorado, towns in the North Fork Valley are transitioning their economies away from extraction. The area is a hub for organic agriculture, and tourists spend their dollars on locally grown food and wine. But some farmers and ranchers are worried new oil and gas development could threaten their way of life. Chad Reich is a filmmaker and educator based in Crested Butte. His documentary, ‘A Monolithic Folly,’ details their concerns and is featured in the Colorado Environmental Film Festival now underway.
- After the Black Tiger fire in 1989 destroyed more than 40 homes in Boulder County, the city issued a mandate that all wood roofs needed to be gone by 2014.
- The Bella Romero Academy, a Greeley 4-8 school, is less than two city blocks away from an active oil and gas pad.
- La Plata Electric in Durango has historically purchased all of its energy from Tri-State Generations and Transmission Association. If a settlement is finalized, half of their energy will come from a new renewable power provider.
