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State lawmakers give first nod to Colorado passenger rail system

State lawmakers give first nod to Colorado passenger rail system

A light rail train crosses West 13th Avenue near Pecos Street in Denver on Aug. 20, 2022 (Quentin Young/Colorado Newsline). Colorado lawmakers gave initial approval on Wednesday to a bill…

Analysis: Colorado crime rates dropping but local news outlets are ignoring the story

Analysis: Colorado crime rates dropping but local news outlets are ignoring the story

Crime rates in Colorado have been on a sustained decline for nearly two years now. If that surprises you, you’re hardly alone, and it’s worth thinking about why. Though no…

Green groups file trio of initiatives, including right to a healthy Colorado environment

Green groups file trio of initiatives, including right to a healthy Colorado environment

 A gas drilling rig in Bent County, Colo., on Oct. 5, 2022 (Chase Woodruff/Colorado Newsline). A coalition of environmentalists filed a trio of ballot initiatives Thursday that could dramatically boost…

Colorado slams SCOTUS wetlands ruling as it moves forward with its own permit regulations

Colorado slams SCOTUS wetlands ruling as it moves forward with its own permit regulations

Outrage over the Trump-packed U.S. Supreme Court rolling back federal reproductive rights has in some ways overshadowed the now 6-3 conservative majority’s relentless assault on environmental regulations that for decades…

In wake of SCOTUS ruling, states like Colorado eye wetlands protections

In wake of SCOTUS ruling, states like Colorado eye wetlands protections

Wetlands along Homestake Creek with Whitney Peak in the background (David O. Williams photo). For 200 miles, the Wabash River forms the border between Illinois and Indiana as it meanders…

Transmission issues frustrate Holy Cross goal of 90% zero-emission power by ’24

Transmission issues frustrate Holy Cross goal of 90% zero-emission power by ’24

Bronco Plains wind energy in eastern Colorado (Holy Cross Energy photo). Holy Cross Energy had hoped to surpass 90% emissions-free energy by the end of 2023. It didn’t get there.…

Colorado takes aggressive legislative steps to limit watering of urban landscaping

Colorado takes aggressive legislative steps to limit watering of urban landscaping

The Aurora Detention Center surrounded by thirsty non-native grass. The remarks in the office of Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Friday afternoon were brief, befitting the bill that was soon…

Proponents of Utah oil train take their case on NEPA review to U.S. Supreme Court

Proponents of Utah oil train take their case on NEPA review to U.S. Supreme Court

An oil truck on U.S. Route 191 through the Uinta Basin in Utah in February of 2024 — the alternative to building the Uinta Basin Railway project (David O. Williams…

Boebert won’t quit early in Western Slope’s CD3 in order to seek CD4 vacancy

Boebert won’t quit early in Western Slope’s CD3 in order to seek CD4 vacancy

U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert during a Natural Resources Committee Zoom hearing. Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, who ostensibly still represents the southwestern part of Eagle County and most of the…

Analysis: Scissor analogy explains the great oil, gas divide in Colorado’s heated climate debate

Analysis: Scissor analogy explains the great oil, gas divide in Colorado’s heated climate debate

This week, for the first time ever, Colorado lawmakers will formally consider a policy that seems to many environmental activists like one of the most direct and obvious ways to…