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Tax, climate package includes $4 billion to combat drought in Arizona, Colorado, other basin states
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Tucked in the U.S. Senate’s tax and climate package is $4 billion for drought resiliency – money that comes at a critical time as the West grapples with dwindling supply from the Colorado River, depleting reservoirs and a drier climate that’s causing the worst wildfires the region has seen this century. The funding would benefit Colorado…
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Colorado remains uninterested as much of U.S. turns to nuclear power
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The Polis administration appears uninterested in nuclear energy, bucking a growing consensus that nuclear power is an essential component in eliminating carbon emissions. Powering homes by splitting atoms is not part of Gov. Jared Polis’ Greenhouse Gas Roadmap plan for 100% carbon-free energy by 2040. While Will Toor, director of the Colorado Energy Office, said…
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OUT WEST ROUNDUP | Officials weigh emergency actions in drought-stricken states
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THE WEST Emergency response weighed as drought worsens FLAGSTAFF, Ariz- Federal officials say it may be necessary to reduce water deliveries to users on the Colorado River to prevent the shutdown of a huge dam that supplies hydropower to some 5 million customers across the U.S. West. Officials had hoped snowmelt would buoy Lake Powell…
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Denver, state officials react to losing Outdoor Retailer trade show
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Officials from Visit Denver and Colorado’s Office of Outdoor Recreation Industry expressed surprise and, of course, disappointment to Emerald X’s decision to move the Outdoor Retailer show back to Salt Lake City starting in 2023. “We were all pretty surprised,” said Richard Scharf, president and CEO of Visit Denver. “We’ve been working the past two…
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Outdoor Retailer organizers respond to calls for boycott
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Officials with the company that organizes the Outdoor Retailer show said they’re “taking all input and perspectives into consideration” in deciding whether to move the show out of Denver. The Conservation Alliance, composed of more than 270 companies, said in a news release Monday that Emerald X, the publicly traded company that owns Outdoor Retailer,…
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OUT WEST ROUNDUP | Rare insects need snowfields; Utah park to require timed tickets
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MONTANA Rare Rocky Mountain insects will need snowfields to survive HELENA – Federal wildlife officials say two species of rare insects in the Rocky Mountains will need several thousand acres of glaciers and snowfields if they are to survive a warming world that’s threatening them with extinction. The western glacier stonefly and the meltwater lednian…
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CHOICE CUTS | How competing redistricting requirements will reshape Colorado’s congressional map
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Note: This story has been updated to accommodate developments that happened the week of June 7. Colorado’s congressional redistricting commission has grappled with months-delayed census data, legislators trying to unconstitutionally tweak their procedures, a state Supreme Court case to defend their independence and the takedown of their first chairman over his controversial Facebook posts –…
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Anti-growth backlash bubbling up in fast-growing Western states
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Colorado’s job growth has a downside. Along the urban corridor where the Rocky Mountains meet the plains, home prices are climbing, luxury apartments are multiplying, and commuters are getting stuck in traffic. Parking spaces on some main streets and popular trailheads are jam-packed. Now some locals, frustrated with the pace of development, are trying to…
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OUT WEST ROUNDUP | New Mexico bills, governor test appetite for gun control
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NEW MEXICO Bills, governor test appetite for gun control SANTA FE – The Democrat-led Legislature and governor are pushing to increase oversight of firearms sales and place new limits on gun possession and ownership. During its 60-day annual legislative session, lawmakers could make New Mexico the first state to enact major gun control reforms in…
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OUT WEST ROUNDUP | Professor names beetle species after ‘Game of Thrones’
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NEBRAKSA Professor names beetle species after ‘Game of Thrones’ LINCOLN, Nebraska- A Nebraska entomologist has named three of his eight newest beetle discoveries after the dragons from the HBO series “Game of Thrones” and George R.R. Martin book series “A Song of Ice and Fire.” University of Nebraska-Lincoln professor Brett Ratcliffe named the new scarab…
