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    Colorado Communities Sue ExxonMobil and Suncor for Climate Damages

    Colorado Communities Sue ExxonMobil and Suncor for Climate Damages

    By Elliott Negin Two Colorado counties and the city of Boulder are suing ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy, Canada’s largest oil company, to hold them responsible for climate change-related damage to their communities. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in a state district court by Boulder, Boulder County and San Miguel County, is seeking compensation for damage and […]

    Conservation Groups: Fracking, Drilling Would Ruin Public Lands Near Colorado’s Great Sand Dunes National Park

    Conservation Groups: Fracking, Drilling Would Ruin Public Lands Near Colorado’s Great Sand Dunes National Park

    Conservation groups are calling on the Trump administration to cancel plans to lease thousands of acres of federal public lands for oil and gas development near western Colorado’s Great Sand Dunes National Park and Blanca Peak without fully analyzing environmental or cultural harms. WildEarth Guardians, the Center for Biological Diversity, Friends of the Earth, Rocky […]

    A Stargazer’s Guide to Protected Dark Skies

    A Stargazer’s Guide to Protected Dark Skies

    By Sabine Bergmann For millennia, human beings have gazed into the firmament and been awed by the thousands of stars, galaxies, nebulae and other cosmic wonders visible to the naked eye. But in recent generations, much of humanity has become divorced from these marvels. Today, at least 80 percent of people living in the United […]

    Colorado Water Plan Has Become ‘Colorado Dam Plan’

    Colorado Water Plan Has Become ‘Colorado Dam Plan’

    You’d have thought the earth moved exactly two years ago with all the ballyhoo at the State Capitol when Gov. John Hickenlooper unveiled the final Colorado Water Plan. I stood in the west foyer of the Capitol as every TV camera in the city pointed at Hickenlooper and his then-Colorado Water Conservation Board director, James […]