The government will pay you $30 an hour to sort through Telluride’s trash
Effort will help towns figure out how to change what people toss and why
Environment
Lightner Creek Mobile home park residents without running water for 11 days
Landlord suspected of violating state law by failing to provide toilets and alternative water source
Conference to address water crisis in Southwest Colorado
Drought requires ideas and collaboration; Sky Ute Casino in Ignacio will host seminar
Senators laud $86 million grant promoting clean drinking water to rural areas
PFAS can cause cancer, liver damage, decreased fertility and other diseases
Water conservation remains a huge concern in the West, annual Colorado College poll shows
The State of the Rockies project’s 13th annual poll found that Coloradans and other western states are still on high alert about water shortages – and willing to act
Upper Colorado River states land $125 million for pilot conservation program amid drought crisis
The major expansion of a previous experiment will be one of Colorado’s biggest contributions to emergency use cuts on the troubled waterway
Interior secretary hires Native American as legal counsel
Lynn Trujillo, of Sandia Pueblo, left, speaks at a news conference in Santa Fe in 2019. Trujillo has been tapped to serve as a top legal adviser to U.S. Interior…
‘Not an object to be bartered,’ the Rio Grande is lifeblood for the land
As New Mexico’s largest river dries, pueblos work to preserve it – and to establish their rights
Fossil fuel drilling threatens air and wildlife in national parks, advocacy group finds
A methane cloud covering more than 1,200 square miles including Colorado said to have formed over four parks in West
Two wolves captured, collared by Colorado wildlife biologists in North Park
The two males, the only GPS-tracked wolves in Colorado, will provide CPW with insight on future wolf behavior in the state
Water, housing and democracy: Senators lay out priorities in Congress
Bennet and Hickenlooper hope to make progress on curbing climate change
A Colorado mountain town’s water may become some of the priciest in Colorado
The state tells Ouray its ancient spring has been infiltrated and now needs $12 million in new filtration
New Colorado water reuse rule said to be first of its kind in the country
Direct potable reuse will require treatment with state-of-the-art technologies
Drought, plague and fire: What the Rio Grande National Forest is up against
There’s no certainty swaths of beetle-bitten trees will recover over burn scars
California is lone holdout in Colorado River cuts proposal
Plan would result in about 2 million acre-feet of cuts in Lower Basin, with smaller reductions in Upper Basin
Emails reveal tensions in Colorado River talks
In emails obtained by The Associated Press, one water manager said, ‘We're all headed to a very dark place.’
EPA outlines 2023 Bonita Peak cleanup priorities
Agency has several large projects in the Silverton Superfund site on next year’s schedule
Polis administration opposes new climate targets in Democratic-backed bill
Colorado Senate bill also includes permitting reforms, incentives for electric lawn equipment
Heat pumps are having a moment in Colorado, but do they really work in the bitter cold?
Developed in 1857, tech improvements are making heat pumps a viable element in the contemporary transition to cleaner, more energy efficient homes
Forest Service agrees to begin winter travel planning on Rio Grande
Conservationists reach partial settlement with federal agency