Oil and gas drilling and fracking pose extraordinary threats to Colorado's Denver metro and Front Range cities including to air quality, water quality in streams and groundwater, wildlife habitat, private property rights, and landscape health. These impacts are generally similar wherever drilling and fracking occurs across the U.S.
But what...
2 Comments | Posted February 8, 2012 | 4:27 PM
Presidential candidate Rick Santorum's three-state sweep in the 2012 Republican caucuses this week throws the Republican race into disarray and also demonstrates just how wildly anti-environmental many Republicans -- including the majority here in Colorado -- have become.
It's ironic that Santorum's sweep occurred within weeks of the...
7 Comments | Posted January 31, 2012 | 10:00 AM
"Fix your eyes on perfection and you can make almost everything speed towards it." -- William Ellery Channing
Over five trillion gallons -- that's how much water is drained out of the Colorado River every year leaving it bone stinkin' dry.
I know, I was there.
A couple...
11 Comments | Posted January 10, 2012 | 9:54 AM
This post was co-authored by Alexandra Cousteau.
The Aral Sea straddles the border of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Two powerful rivers, the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya, feed this inland sea -- one of the four largest lakes in the world -- and it, in turn, feeds the...
5 Comments | Posted January 2, 2012 | 3:05 PM
First, the good: A few weeks ago, the State of Colorado passed the strongest rules in the United States for publicly disclosing what cancer-causing and other types chemicals are used in oil and gas fracking. In a ground-breaking and intense set of negotiations between oil and gas companies...
32 Comments | Posted March 19, 2012 | 2:26 PM