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Colorado air regulators propose higher fees for pollution permits and reports

Updated 2 days ago

Colorado’s air quality agency plans to raise charges for air pollution permits and emissions reports for businesses that release even modest amounts of contaminants, potentially...

With guidelines expiring, federal agency releases draft plan for Colorado River operations

Updated 2 days ago

Two months after the seven states of the Colorado River Basin failed to reach consensus on managing the waterway, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation issued...

Colorado appeals Trump’s rejection of federal disaster declarations for flooding, fires

Updated 5 days ago

Colorado has formally appealed the Trump administration’s decision to deny requests for federal disaster declarations tied to two wildfires and flooding last year. Gov. Jared...

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

Updated 6 days 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...

House Speaker urges colleagues to fight Trump, who ‘would hold Colorado hostage’

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

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Ski patrollers end strike against Telluride

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U.S. House weighs override of Trump veto on Colorado water project

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Ben Nighthorse Campbell was a Colorado original | Vince Bzdek

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Commerce City to become largest Colorado city with fully EV trash-collection fleet

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Feds order coal-fired Craig power plant to remain open

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US Rep. Lauren Boebert calls for override vote after Trump vetoes bipartisan Colorado water bill

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Colorado eyes shift in particulate oversight amid EV push

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Colorado Politics in focus: the year’s top in-depth cover stories and series | 2025 unfiltered

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Colorado PUC slates January hearings on natural gas plan, transmission line appeal, railroad rules

Updated 4 weeks ago

The Colorado Public Utilities Commission announced January public comment opportunities on railroad safety rules, natural gas infrastructure, and a major transmission line siting appeal. The...

Pine beetle infestation in Colorado’s Front Range forests prompts action from Gov. Polis

Updated 4 weeks ago

Pine beetle infestations are quickly spreading across large areas of Colorado’s ponderosa pine forests, evident from aerial surveys conducted by the U.S. Forest Service over...

Trump administration moves to shutter national climate lab in Colorado

Updated 1 month ago

Democrats slam decision as ‘deeply dangerous’ as White House calls facility a source of ‘climate alarmism’ The Trump administration is moving to dismantle one of...

Trump administration moves to dissolve national climate research lab in Colorado

Updated 1 month ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, moving to dissolve a research lab that a top...

U.S. House votes along party lines to begin debate on delisting gray wolves

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Colorado rancher donates 72,000 pounds of hay to ranchers affected by Lee fire

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Xcel Energy prepares for power shutoffs due to high winds

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Colorado Reps. Hurd and Neguse join forces to modernize federal snow-forecasting program

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Colorado waste companies partner for one-stop collection service

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Audit finds major gaps in Colorado’s oil and gas reporting, enforcement

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51 acres of private Colorado inholdings secured by land trust in two popular wildernesses

Updated 2 months ago

Ranch owner who built 8.5-foot fence in Colorado faces $66K per day fine

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Colorado rolls out plan to supercharge clean-energy jobs boom

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Can Colorado reinvent its uranium legacy?

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Colorado River crisis deepens as 7 states miss deadline for water management plan

Updated 2 months ago

The seven states that share the Colorado River blew past the Nov. 11 deadline without reaching even a framework for how to manage the river...

Colorado, Xcel, petition to delay Comanche coal-fired generating unit shutdown

Updated 2 months ago

Colorado’s largest utility company has petitioned energy regulators to push back the retirement of a coal-fired, electrical generating unit located in the Southern part of...

Another translocated wolf dies in Colorado, bringing total to 12

Updated 3 months ago

Wildlife officials on Friday morning announced that another British Columbia wolf, a female with the tag 2506, died in southwest Colorado. Officials said necropsy will...

Trump taps ex-N.M. congressman to head BLM

Updated 3 months ago

Steve Pearce, a former Republican congressman from New Mexico and, until last December, the chair of the New Mexico Republican Party, is the latest nominee...