david o. williams
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Hickenlooper announces Colorado Climate Plan
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Gov. John Hickenlooper on Wednesday laid out a sweeping strategy for combating greenhouse gas emissions called the Colorado Climate Plan. Citing a state report that found “Colorado has warmed substantially in the last 30 years and even more in the last 50 years” and projects that temperatures will spike another 2.5 degrees by 2050, the…
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EPA to hold Denver hearing on oil and gas methane rules
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More than 100 environmentalists, oil and gas industry representatives and members of the public have signed up to testify next week at a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency hearing in Denver on proposed rules to reduce methane and other emissions during oil and gas production. The federal rules mirror those adopted by the Colorado Air Quality…
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Supreme Court to hear avalanche death case at East High School
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The Colorado Supreme Court will go back to school this month to decide a case with potentially far-reaching implications for the state’s $3 billion-a-year ski industry. As part of the Colorado Judicial Branch’s “Courts in the Community” program, justices will consider oral arguments at Denver’s East High School on Sept. 29 in a lawsuit filed…
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Governor would consider EPA Superfund request for mines if local officials get behind designation
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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,”…
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EPA vows stout defense as Coffman set to sue over Clean Power Plan
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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…
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Congress obsessed with EPA, but Silverton seeks solutions for contaminated mines
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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…
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Bennet to introduce Senate version of Polis wilderness bill
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U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet on Wednesday announced he’ll introduce a bill this session to protect more than 58,000 acres of public land in Eagle and Summit counties as wilderness. Bennet made the announcement at a press event in Breckenridge attended by local politicians, area residents and business leaders. The Continental Divide Wilderness and Recreation Act…
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Colorado Dems back mining reform, GOP focused on Good Samaritan law
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Two weeks after the Environmental Protection Agency and contract workers accidentally released 3 million gallons of acid mine waste into the Animas River, federal lawmakers are gearing up for a deluge of debate over how best to solve the problem of thousands of abandoned mines leaching into watersheds all over the West. Experts on mine…
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Lawmakers from 13 states schooled on Colorado’s problems, successes
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VAIL – Getting more than 300 state lawmakers to focus on the human side of public policy might be a bit much to hope for – unless you bring them all together in the rarified Colorado Rocky Mountain air and have them stay four days at the Vail Cascade Resort and Spa. That’s what state…
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Sale, remodel of Ford’s Vail Valley home aims to downplay presidential history
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BEAVER CREEK – In the early 1980s, Colorado’s economy was languishing and the fledgling ski resort of Beaver Creek – just a few miles west of Vail – was in serious trouble. But the ski area – first envisioned as a venue for the never-to-be 1976 Denver Winter Olympics – had one huge backer, who…