todd hartman
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Colorado River Basin sees ‘spectacular’ snowpack, buying time for big decisions
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The Colorado River is one of the West’s most vital resources. But 20 years of drought have stressed the entire river basin, forcing federal officials to call for massive cuts in water use. This winter, in the water-towers of the west, storms have dropped more than double the average snowpack in some Colorado mountains. But…
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Drought, warming, punish Colorado River, push mega-fires onto the basin
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Historic drought and low-runoff conditions have impacted the Colorado River Basin for several decades, robbing the area of moisture and priming the land for wildfires. In October of 2020, the East Troublesome spread through Grand County, devastating the drought-stricken terrain with a speed and ferocity no one in Colorado had seen before. As the fire grew,…
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Q&A w/Todd Hartman: Thoughts on a journey from journalist to ‘spox’
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Todd Hartman has served as communications director at the Colorado Department of Natural Resources since 2010; he also did media work for the Governor’s Energy Office. Prior to 2009, he spent 24 years in daily print journalism at four newspapers, including the Rocky Mountain News. For much of his career as a journalist he specialized…
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Colorado drilling commission pressed on fatal Front Range gas patch home explosion
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The fact that the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission held a press conference Thursday to address the deadly house explosion that rocked Firestone last week was the main news to emerge from the meeting. The April 17 explosion killed two men. There is no evidence linking the explosion to oil and gas operations. But…
