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OUT WEST ROUNDUP | Aging lookout towers still key during fire season across the West
Idaho Aging lookout towers still key during fire season across the West BOISE, Idaho – Fire-lookout towers perched atop remote, craggy peaks across the U.S. West may seem like quaint reminders of an era before satellites, smartphones and jet-propelled air tankers. Indeed, some of the structures are more than 100 years old. But with their…
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Trump replacement for Obama climate plan moves forward
The Trump administration is advancing a proposal that would replace President Barack Obama’s principal attempt to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions with a new rule expected to go easier on the ailing coal industry. The Environmental Protection Agency disclosed Tuesday that it sent the new rule to the White House for review. The document itself…
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Trump orders ‘immediate steps’ to boost coal, nuclear plants
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Friday directed Energy Secretary Rick Perry to prepare “immediate steps” to bolster struggling coal-fired and nuclear power plants to keep them open.White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement that Trump believes “keeping America’s energy grid and infrastructure strong and secure protects our national security, public safety…
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Colorado energy jobs led by natural gas and energy efficiency sectors
Energy employment in Colorado grew by 11 percent in 2017 to a total of nearly 91,000 jobs – lead by the natural gas and energy-efficiency sectors, according to a report by the National Association of State Energy Officials. The survey of energy companies, which was done in conjunction with the energy think tank the Energy…
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COVER STORY: The cost of cutting coal — Xcel is backing away from coal power, but who pays?
Today, rumbling conveyor belts feed a stream of coal to units 1 and 2 at Xcel Energy’s Comanche Generating Station, just outside Pueblo. But the endless flow of coal and the roaring boilers could begin to go quiet in the next four years under a plan before Colorado regulators. But in shuttering the two 1970s-vintage…
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A year later, Colorado Energy Office one step closer to reauthorization
What a difference a year makes: On Wednesday the House Transportation & Energy Committee gave near-unanimous support to reauthorizing the Colorado Energy Office (CEO). The CEO, which is housed in the governor’s office, was the subject of a heated debate last year. Ultimately the bill failed in a power struggle between Senate Republicans, who wanted to…
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Renewable energy as an electricity source has turned the corner in Colorado
A recent poll conducted by Chris Keating of Keating Research, a polling and survey firm that consults primarily for Democrats including Gov. John Hickenlooper and Denver Mayor Michael Hancock, reveals that Colorado’s political environment parallels the nation’s, but preferences on energy issues are distinctly Coloradan. The results come from 605 active voters, with a margin…
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Letter: Renewable energy, not coal, is nation’s future
Editor: Naturally, it’s the vice president of the National Association of Mining writing “Energy Department right to study impact of regulations on U.S. power grid.” Trump and the NAM are the only support the coal mining industry has. Carbon pollution from burning coal kills hundreds of thousands of Americans annually according to MIT.edu, and Americans…