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60 years later, Arkansas Valley clean water pipeline project finally breaks ground
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A project promised by former President John F. Kennedy to bring clean water to Lower Arkansas Valley communities is finally underway, although hundreds of millions in funding is still needed. The Arkansas Valley Conduit project estimated to cost $600 to $700 million will bring clean water to communities with some of the highest concentrations of radium-contaminated…
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Bennet, Olympic athletes take on Trump over environment
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Colorado U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet sharply criticized Trump administration environmental policy Wednesday during a briefing on climate change in the nation’s capital. “The president is creating the kind of uncertainty that we don’t need in Colorado,” Bennet said. He was joined by five U.S. winter Olympic athletes – including one from Colorado…
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Colorado’s Sen. Bennet seeks solutions for opioid addiction problems
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet cited alarming figures on the rise of opioid addictions in Colorado as he asked expert witnesses at a Senate hearing Thursday for their suggestions on a solution. He said too many addictions to the powerful painkillers are treated only after they reach a crisis. “There’s agreement from the witnesses…
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Environmentalists criticize Sen. Gardner for his vote to allow Arctic oil drilling
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WASHINGTON – Colorado U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner set off an angry response from environmentalists this week with his vote to allow oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Gardner is a member of the Senate committee that approved a bill to sell leases to oil companies that want to drill along Alaska’s northeast coast.…
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U.S. Senate health treatment proposals offer hope for Colorado programs
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WASHINGTON – Two U.S. Senate hearings this week bring prospects for more federal support for the kind of medical research and preventive programs that have marked Colorado health care efforts in recent years. This week the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee heard witnesses describe promising treatments from gene editing. “We’re really on the…
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Democrats celebrate Colorado as ‘pocket of sanity’ amid national election results
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Colorado Democrats celebrated sweeping wins across the state on Tuesday night at a hotel in downtown Denver, but the election-night watch party felt more like a wake as the national map on large-screen televisions slowly turned more and more red, depicting Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s win over Democrat Hillary Clinton. Clinton carried the state’s…
