environmental protection agency Archives

YESTERYEAR: Colorado looks to solve the ‘brown cloud’ and prison reform problems

Mar 9, 2017

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Rachael Wright, Special to Colorado Politics

Thirty Years Ago This Week in the Colorado Statesman … According to Don Barbarick, state meteorologist with the Colorado Department of Health’s air pollution division, the Town of Parker was a relative “fail-safe area” for Denver’s “brown cloud,” the notorious billow of smog that settled across Denver’s skyline. Parker was deemed safe because of its elevation,…

Bennet between proverbial rock and hard place

Mar 7, 2017

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Mike McKibbin

While his vote may be in the minority regarding Neil Gorsuch’s confirmation as a U.S. Supreme Court justice, U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet’s position and intent toward the process and Gorsuch himself have fueled political speculation and concerns over consequences. Gorsuch, a Colorado native and Denver-based federal appeals court judge, was nominated by President Donald Trump…

Denver EPA office, like other regional agency offices, braces for consolidation

Mar 7, 2017

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John Tomasic

Steep Environmental Protection Agency budget cuts proposed by the Trump administration may well include paring back the number of agency regional offices from ten to eight, according to report published Monday by Inside EPA, a public policy newsletter publication. Denver is home to the EPA’s Region 8 headquarters, which administers policy for more than 10…

Denver EPA office at risk as Trump looks to pare down agency

Mar 6, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

The EPA’s Denver office could be a target for closure as the Trump administration looks to make deep cuts in federal regulatory programs. Denver is one of the two the Trump administration might seek to shutter, the environmental newsletter InsideEPA.com reported Monday. The Environmental Protection Agency maintains 10 regional offices. The Denver-based Region 8 office…

In Depth: Perlmutter joins Lakewood legislators for jam-packed town hall

Mar 2, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Next week, a Czech ensemble, Cirk La Putyka, brings its contemporary take on the circus to the stage, blurring the lines between acrobatics, dance, puppetry and music, and a couple of weeks after that it’s the boisterous “Hello, Dolly!” musical that’ll be filling the theater’s seats for a two-week run. But Saturday, Feb. 18, it…

Rescinding BLM gas waste reduction rule before Senate

Feb 20, 2017

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Mike McKibbin

One of Colorado’s U.S. Senators is strongly opposed to a measure that would roll back an Obama administration rule to prevent the flaring and wasting of methane and natural gas developed on public and tribal lands, while the second is undecided. The rule was among several environmental regulations issued in the last days of the…

Jones slams confirmation of Pruitt, says Colorado must go own way on environment

Feb 18, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Calling former Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt “the wrong choice for EPA administrator,” a Democratic state senator said Friday that Colorado will have to chart its own environmental course and reject the direction it looks like Washington is taking. “Scott Pruitt’s history of climate change denial, opposing environmental protection and his uncomfortably close ties with the…

Gold King Mine gets a shout-out in EPA nomination debate

Feb 17, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

Colorado’s two senators voted with their parties on the confirmation of Scott Pruitt as the next Environmental Protection Agency administrator Friday. The Oklahoma attorney general who has gone to war with the EPA over climate change issues was confirmed, 52-46. Sen. Michael Bennet, a Democrat from Denver, argued Pruitt is averse to what Coloradans believe…

Colorado Farm Bureau spells out Washington priorities

Feb 1, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

The Colorado Farm Bureau has laid out a list of suggestions and priorities for the 155th Congress. U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner of Yuma asked for the input last month. “Whether it is regulations or legislation, it is important for the Administration and Congress to understand the impact of their policies, and agriculture is no exception,” he…

Colorado EPA office: In transition, clean up and emergency work unaffected

Jan 26, 2017

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John Tomasic

“There has been a pause on certain agency programs, but Superfund actions and emergency response will continue as normal,” said Andrew Mutter, deputy director at the Denver-based Environmental Protection Agency Region 8 Office of Communication and Public Involvement. The information comes more than a day after news reports broke on a freeze put in place…