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Conservation group launches six-figure ad campaign targeting Coffman

Sep 5, 2018

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Ernest Luning

A leading liberal environmental group is urging voters to “take the cough out of Congress” in a TV ad campaign launched Tuesday aimed at unseating U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, the Aurora Republican seeking reelection in the swing 6th Congressional District. LCV Victory Fund, the political arm of the League of Conservation Voters, plans to spend…
Kelly Nordini to be named boss of Conservation Colorado

Aug 28, 2018

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JOEY BUNCH

Kelly Nordini will be the new executive director of Conservation Colorado, Colorado Politics has learned. The state’s largest environmental advocacy organization is expected to make the announcement Tuesday afternoon. Nordini replaces Pete Maysmith, who left last year. In the interim, the post was held by Maria Handley, who did not seek the permanent job. RELATED:…
Maria Handley steps in to guide Conservation Colorado through the interim

Jan 5, 2018

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JOEY BUNCH

Seasoned Colorado politico Maria Handley will lead Conservation Colorado while the search continues for ta permanent executive director, the state’s largest and highest profile environmental organization tells Colorado Politics. Most immediately, Handley was the executive director of Generation Latino, but she’s familiar in Colorado political circles after 15 years working on campaigns, including those for…
Conservation Colorado backs first city-level candidates in Aurora, scores 2 more wins

Nov 10, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

Conservation Colorado is this juggernaut green organization that gives state and national candidates the heebie-jeebies in the West’s political wilds. Last year, 54 of the 60 candidates it endorsed went on to win. And whenever legislation affecting the environment, large or small, is debated at the Capitol in Denver, Conservation Colorado is there in big…
Pete Maysmith moves on from Conservation Colorado to head up national elections effort

Sep 21, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

The man who made Conservation Colorado the engine of the state’s environmental movement is pulling out of the station. Pete Maysmith is becoming the senior vice president of campaigns for the national League of Conservation Voters. Since taking over as executive director of the then-little-known Colorado Conservation Voters in 2009, Maysmith has led the organization…
Gov. John Hickenlooper announces Colorado is joining U.S. Climate Alliance, sets carbon reduction goals

Jul 11, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Gov. John Hickenlooper on Tuesday signed an executive order committing Colorado to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in accordance with a global climate agreement rejected last month by President Donald Trump. Hickenlooper said the state is joining the U.S. Climate Alliance, a coalition of 13 states and Puerto Rico agreeing to adhere to the goals set…
Public Lands Day in Colorado Saturday is a chance for both sides of the debate to give it some thought

May 15, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

From the time she entered the legislature in 2015, state Sen. Kerry Donovan saw the discussion of public lands creeping out to the extreme. And appreciating the peace, beauty and economic necessity is anything but an extreme Colorado view, said the lawmaker for the heart of the state’s central mountains. “Public Lands Day was an…
U.S. Senate, Colorado’s Cory Gardner lauded, scolded over methane vote

May 10, 2017

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Dan Njegomir

Colorado environmentalists cheered the nation’s Senate but jeered one of its members, Colorado Republican U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner, for their votes today regarding a proposed repeal of new curbs on methane emissions from oil and gas wells. Just reverse the order of those cheers and jeers, of course, to get the take of supporters of the state’s substantial oil and gas…
Conservation Colorado joins public lands fight for Outdoor Retailer show

Feb 15, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

We told you last week that Utah is shaking in its hiking boots that Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper is trying to lure away the twice annual Outdoor Retailer trade show from Utah. Now Conservation Colorado has his back. It seems some of the industry titans who produce outdoor gear aren’t crazy about the way some…
Trump’s reboot of Keystone XL pipeline draws expected cheers and jeers

Jan 24, 2017

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Peter Marcus

Reaction in Colorado to President Donald Trump’s decision Tuesday to revive the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines fell predictably along partisan lines, with environmental interests assailing the bold decision while Republicans hailed the new commander in chief. The executive order on the Dakota Access pipeline directs the Army Corps of Engineers to “review and approve…