Author: David O. Williams

Gov. John Hickenlooper would consider requesting that abandoned mines near Silverton be designated an EPA Superfund site and placed on the National Priority List if there’s enough local support, a spokeswoman told The Colorado Statesman this week. “The governor would certainly consider making the request [to the EPA] if there is broad local community support,”…

Attorney General Cynthia Coffman on Saturday announced Colorado will join other states in a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan, eliciting promises this week of a “vigorous defense” by the EPA. Coffman said in a statement that the EPA’s rule — intended to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants 32…

As Congress sharpens its knives for what will likely be multiple committee hearings on the accidental release by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of 3 million gallons of toxic mine wastewater into the Animas River on Aug. 5, local officials are focused on disaster relief. Their pleas for congressional help come amid a chorus of…

VAIL — A large proposed land swap between a private developer and the U.S. Forest Service near Vail and Beaver Creek ski areas has rekindled the always-smoldering debate over what constitutes the “best public interest” on federally owned public lands in Colorado. More than 36 percent of Colorado is owned by the federal government and…