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With no 7-state deal, federal agency turns to 10-year Colorado River strategy

Updated 17 hours ago

The U.S. Department of the Interior is moving forward with a 10-year framework for managing the Colorado River after 2026, outlining a plan to issue...

Colorado governor candidates confront business climate, housing affordability woes

Updated 1 week ago

Four of the five major-party candidates for Colorado governor share common ground on two big issues: they see the perception that Colorado has become less...

Tapped: Is water a problem for data centers in Colorado?

Updated 2 weeks ago

Editor‘s Note: The Denver metro region sits at the center of one of the American West’s most complex and consequential water challenges. This series examines...

Colorado’s proposed battery regulations target fire risks, raise enforcement, cost questions

Updated 3 weeks ago

Some worry consumers would face civil or administrative fines under the legislation Lawmakers have passed new regulations mandating sellers of lithium-powered batteries to register with...

Colorado lawmakers kill both major data center bills

Updated 4 weeks ago

Denver public safety power shut-offs ‘a last resort,’ Xcel says

Updated 1 month ago

Colorado regulators could force Xcel customers to pay for troubled plant for decades

Updated 1 month ago

University of Denver closes in on carbon neutrality goals

Updated 1 month ago

Power grid shutdowns in Colorado bring protection — and problems

Updated 2 months ago

Colorado farmers begin spring planting season with soaring fertilizer costs and price-gouging fears

Updated 2 months ago

Proposed data center regulation in Colorado draws critics, backers

Updated 3 months ago

Conservation Colorado proposes measures aimed at oil and gas companies

Updated 3 months ago

Universities sue to block dismantling of Boulder’s NCAR

Updated 3 months ago

Colorado, other states oppose proposal to require EV chargers be made with 100% domestic components

Updated 3 months ago

Xcel Energy: Power shutoff ‘likely’ Saturday in Boulder, Jefferson counties

Updated 3 months ago

Up to 43,000 residents in parts of Boulder and Jefferson counties should be prepared to have their power shut off Saturday afternoon, Xcel Energy said....

U.S. energy secretary warns Colorado’s energy policies could drive up prices, deter businesses

Updated 3 months ago

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Monday warned that Colorado’s energy policies could lead to higher electricity prices and deter businesses, such as data centers,...

Colorado Attorney General, environmental groups challenge EPA rejection of state’s haze plan

Updated 3 months ago

Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser and several environmental organizations have filed separate petitions in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, challenging the...

Colorado lawmakers move to curb eminent domain powers after Xcel dispute

Updated 3 months ago

After months of backlash over Xcel Energy’s use of eminent domain in eastern Colorado, lawmakers representing Elbert and El Paso counties are advancing legislation that...

Colorado lawmakers mull competing bills on data centers

Updated 3 months ago

U.S. Supreme Court to hear bid by oil companies to toss climate suits in Boulder case

Updated 3 months ago

CU Boulder, state launch economic research in coal-transition areas

Updated 4 months ago

Colorado’s federal energy lab hit with another round of 100+ layoffs

Updated 4 months ago

Colorado joins lawsuit against Trump energy emergency order

Updated 4 months ago

Xcel gets an earful from public for power shutoffs in Colorado

Updated 4 months ago

$200M in federal funds to be deployed in Denver area for heat pumps aimed at reducing emissions

Updated 4 months ago

Colorado-based Energy Fuels acquiring Australian rare-earth producer for $299M

Updated 5 months ago

Denver gas prices surge but diesel mix-up not to blame, expert says

Updated 5 months ago

Colorado oilmen may play key role in Trump’s Venezuelan oil takeover plan

Updated 5 months ago

PUC holds firm on ambitious 41% greenhouse gas cut for natural gas utilities

Updated 5 months ago

The Colorado Public Utilities Commission refused to ease a greenhouse gas reduction target for natural gas utilities, voting 2-1 to preserve a 41% cut in...

Vince Bzdek: Coloradans are fed up with the high price of cars

Updated 5 months ago

Car buyers in Colorado – and America – are fed up. Cars are too damn expensive. The average price of a new car broke the...

Feds order coal-fired Craig power plant to remain open

Updated 5 months ago

The Trump administration’s energy agency has ordered one of three generating units at a Colorado power plant to remain available for operation amid an impending...

Colorado eyes shift in particulate oversight amid EV push

Updated 5 months ago

Colorado’s Air Pollution Control Division proposed shifting oversight of solid particulates as small as one-seventh the width of a human hair from federal to state-only...