Author: Colorado Politics staff

COMMERCE CITY — Fresh from their World Cup victory, members of the U.S. women’s national soccer team were recognized Monday at a friendly match between the Colorado Avalanche and England’s storied Arsenal. Women’s team players Lindsey Horan and Mallory Pugh were in attendance; both are  Colorado natives. They were honored at halftime in front of…

WASHINGTON  – Despite scientists’ increasingly urgent warnings, the Trump administration ordered a sweeping about-face Wednesday on Obama-era efforts to fight climate change, easing restrictions on coal-fired power plants in a move it predicted would revitalize America’s sagging coal industry. Environmentalists in Colorado, including Gov. Jared Polis, condemned the action. As miners in hard hats and…

Colorado presidential hopefuls John Hickenlooper and Michael Bennet will share the stage on the second night of the two-night kickoff debate of Democratic presidential candidates in Miami at the end of the month. They’ll also share the stage with four of the five front-running candidates, with the fifth — Elizabeth Warren — appearing the previous…

Nine state attorneys general, including Colorado’s Phil Weiser, asked a federal appeals court on Wednesday to allow an intersex Colorado resident to get a passport listing the person’s gender as nonbinary instead of male or female. The states filed a brief with the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver asking the justices to uphold…

Attorneys general from 43 states, including Colorado, are alleging the nation’s largest generic drug manufacturers conspired to artificially inflate and manipulate prices for more than 100 different generic drugs, including treatments for diabetes, cancer, arthritis and other medical conditions. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Connecticut on Friday, also names 15 individual senior executives…

Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper on Tuesday met with survivors of the Columbine High School attack and other mass shootings four days before the 20th anniversary of the Columbine massacre. Hickenlooper, who is seeking the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, has been touting gun control measures he signed following the 2012 Aurora theater shooting, which killed…

A plan to address a shrinking supply of water on a river that serves 40 million people in the West is headed to President Donald Trump. The U.S. House and Senate approved the Colorado River drought contingency plan on Monday. Colorado along with Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming spent years negotiating the…