rocky flats
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10th Circuit rebuffs Rocky Flats-skeptic groups’ challenge to refuge trail system
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The federal appeals court based in Denver has agreed the government did not violate the law when it approved a set of trail modifications at the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge in 2018 without a more rigorous environmental review. In reaching its decision, a three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th…
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Energy company scales back plans for drilling near Rocky Flats
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A Boulder County town says an oil and gas company is withdrawing its application for some of the wells it wanted to drill near a former nuclear weapons plant south of Boulder. The Boulder Daily Camera reports that Highlands Natural Resources Corp. told the town of Superior it would cancel its plans to drill wells…
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Rocky Flats opening was delayed (except not really)
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If a plan to delay the opening of Rocky Flats to the public gets reported, and then it’s announced two hours later that the delay has been canceled, did the delay ever really happen? While we ponder the metaphysics of that one, here’s what we know: The Hill reported at (per the time stamp) 2:15…
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2nd suit seeks to keep Rocky Flats site closed to public
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A Colorado town near the former Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant has filed a lawsuit to keep part of the site from opening to the public as a wildlife refuge. The town of Superior, located near the site, asked a federal judge to keep the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from opening Rocky Flats National…
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Official disputes critic of Rocky Flats nuke plant cleanup
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A U.S. official harshly criticized a Colorado county health officer who questioned the safety of the Rocky Flats site, a former nuclear weapons plant near Denver that was converted into a wildlife refuge, and expressed doubt about whether the government’s assurances about the site could be trusted. The dispute is part of a decades-long public…
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Activists go to court to block refuge at Rocky Flats
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BOULDER – Environmental activists have filed a preliminary injunction request to keep Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge from opening at the site of the former nuclear weapons facility of the same name. The Boulder Daily Camera reported Thursday that the refuge is planned for more than 7.8 square milesand set to open in the summer.…
