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Black: EPA’s methane rule vital to protect climate, Colorado outdoors
As a life-long snowboarder, I’ve seen that the mountains provide a lot more than just a place to recreate. Those of us in the sport realize how lucky we are to be able to take advantage of the incredible outdoors and the incomputable value it adds to our lives. Unfortunately, climate change is threatening the…
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Barton-Gawryn: EPA methane rule good for environment, economy
Too often big issues divide us. As a pediatric nurse, I know that topics like methane regulation can polarize people, tricking us into believing that we must choose between environment, health or economic security. But controlling methane pollution from the oil and gas industry is a win for children’s health, economic stability and clean environments.…
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YESTERYEAR: Allegations surface that embezzlement scheme helped fund U.S. Senate petition drive
Thirty-Five Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Some of the money allegedly embezzled from the Central Bank for Cooperatives in Denver by Eve Lincoln, a former coordinator for Secretary of State Mary Estill Buchanan’s 1980 Senate campaign, could have been used to help finance Buchanan’s petition drive to get on the ballot,…
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Hickenlooper, Mead set aside political differences to dig into sage grouse plan
While a massive five-year collaborative push by numerous government agencies, business interests, landowners and conservation groups to avoid Endangered Species Act listing of the greater sage grouse is largely heralded as a national model, it’s clear political differences remain between the neighboring Western governors who spearheaded the effort. Speaking at a two-day Western Governors’ Association…