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Remembering John Fielder and his endless photographic fight to conserve Colorado’s wild place
I didn’t know photographer John Fielder was battling pancreatic cancer until I received the following email statement on Saturday from Colorado Gov. Jared Polis and then read this story in the…
Down the Line: Colorado River headwaters ground zero for inevitable train derailments, oil spills in local streams
An aerial view of the aftermath of the train derailment and chemical fire in East Palestine, Ohio, in February 2023. (National Transportation Safety Board) At 88 miles long, with a…
Colorado, other states look to step up protections for wetlands in wake of SCOTUS rollback
Tens of millions of acres of wetlands are no longer protected by the Clean Water Act after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last month (U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources…
Supreme Court rules for Idaho couple, gutting federal protections for wetlands nationwide
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled in favor of an Idaho couple and stripped away federal Clean Water Act authority for huge swaths of wetlands nationwide. (Rob Levine/Minnesota Reformer).…
State lawmaker and former local mobile home park resident Velasco targets water quality issues
The Eagle River Village mobile home park in Edwards (David O. Williams photo). EDWARDS, Colo. — When Elizabeth Velasco first moved to Colorado from San Francisco del Rincón, Mexico, she…
Boebert claims to be Western Slope water champion for bills she voted against
Last week, U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO)’s office sent out a press release that contained the following sentence: “Congresswoman Boebert is a strong advocate for rural water storage projects, and in the…
House GOP, including Boebert, votes to overturn Waters of the United States wetlands protections
The U.S. House voted Thursday to undo a Biden administration definition of wetlands that allows for regulations on private lands. The chamber approved, 227-198, a resolution to roll back the…
Protect the West Act would pump $60 billion into western wildfire mitigation, watershed protection
A bill introduced in Congress this week by Colorado Democrats would allocate $60 billion in federal funding for efforts to protect vulnerable forests and watersheds and mitigate wildfire risk throughout…
‘Everybody against California’: Deal on sharing Colorado River water will be tough to reach
Editor’s note: This story first appeared on Stateline, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts. SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Western state water officials will spend the next few months trying…
Colorado health officials unveil tougher regs for drinking water reuse
Drinking water standards have been updated by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment to improve water reuse regulation for consumption, the first regulation of its kind across the…