Vallecito hydroelectric plant returns to local ownership, powering regional energy shift
Durango firm takes over as LPEA exits Tri-State, eyes energy independence
Environment
Heinrich, Hickenlooper and Bennet introduce bill to increase tribal access to clean water
Native American households, compared to white households, are 19 times more likely to lack indoor plumbing
Mature pines protected in logging agreement
The San Juan Citizens Alliance and Center for Biological Diversity reached an agreement with the U.S. Forest Service to protect older pine trees during a long-awaited timber operation that led…
Advocates: Mount Cristo Rey wall will worsen migrant deaths, erosion, habitat loss
Public comment on the federal border project ends July 3
New electric-vehicle charging station comes to Cortez
Tesla station was funded by the Colorado Energy Office and Colorado Department of Transportation
Large-scale solar project in limbo during moratorium in Montezuma County
Juwi Inc. says resubmitting application is ‘TBD’
Once-blighted south entrance to Cortez sees new gas station
Maverik gas station along U.S. Highway 160/491 comes closer to opening
Southern Utes to tap Lake Nighthorse water
Tribe holds rights to 38,108 acre-feet annually
Work underway to put out mining fire that’s burned for more than 20 years
Contractors use excavation equipment to extinguish a site where a coal mine waste fire has smoldered for more than two decades in Fremont County. (Courtesy of Colorado Division of Reclamation,…
Southern Ute tribal member elected to chair Colorado water policy board in historic first
Lorelei Cloud tapped as board’s first-ever Indigenous chairperson
Wastewater system fails near Hesperus, sending E. coli into nearby waterway
State health department: Private well users near Pine Winds Mobile Home Park should use bottled or filtered water
Ditch Democracy: Northern New Mexico’s acequia culture
In the high desert of rural Taos County, a complex web of irrigation ditches has nourished the region for centuries. But adapting Western water law for a historic, community-led system…
Chevron spill largest since at least 2015; full clean-up may take 5 years
Company has recovered at least 3.8 million gallons of liquid from a Weld County site
Southern Ute Indian Tribe criticizes company over gasoline spill response
A pipeline south of Durango burst in December, spilling 23,000 gallons of fuel
Southwestern Colorado farmers expect a third of their normal water supply
Water managers and farmers in the Colorado River Basin are forecasting a slow year after lackluster snow – and hoping for a rainy spring
Montezuma County plans public hearing to review Canyonland Solar Project
Solar facility is proposed for nearly 1,000 acres of private land
Rains expected to continue through Thursday as storm trudges on
‘This is not unusual,’ meteorologist says of May downpour
Report claiming environmental policies steal billions from Colorado’s economy based on bad math, advocates say
Study by the conservative Common Sense Institute pegs everything from lost coal jobs to higher utility bills on state regulations
Navajo advocates say prez’s approval of uranium transport, Trump coal order feels like a betrayal
Longtime advocate says ‘Man in the black hat’ and ‘Mr. yellow hair’ are getting too close
White House to reverse rule promoting conservation on BLM land
Public Lands Act put restoration on equal footing with ranching and drilling