The political right in Colorado says the defeat of 2,500-foot setback measure signals the state is OK with the status quo for oil and gas.
After a November election dominated by Trump, transportation and health care, climate change is emerging as the top legislative priority on the political left, where environmental advocates and Democratic lawmakers are hoping to turn Colorado’s...
The Trump administration on Thursday proposed rolling back an Obama-era rule requiring new U.S. coal plants to slash carbon emissions, a move that could crack open the door in coming years for new plants fired by the fossil fuel.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s acting administrator, Andrew Wheeler, a former coal lobbyist, announced the proposal. It would allow new coal...
Westmoreland Coal is moving closer to selling mines to a group of creditors in its bankruptcy reorganization, wiping out existing shareholders and leaving hundreds of millions of dollars in retired miners’ health care and benefits unpaid.
The Douglas County-based company, the country’s sixth-largest coal producer and oldest coal mine company still operating in the U.S., filed Oct. 9 for Chapter...
Staffing at the closed New Horizon Mine in Nucla will be reduced to a skeletal level in late January following the completion of major portions of reclamation.
Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association said in a news release Tuesday that the workers at the coal mine, which currently employs 19 people, have been notified along with the United Mine Workers of...
Xcel Energy has announced its plan to move to 100% carbon-free power generation by 2050, with the utility also saying it will reduce carbon emissions by 80% by 2030, from 2005 levels.
Xcel, headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, serves customers in eight states and over the past two years has announced a significant number of renewable energy projects.
Ben Fowke, Xcel’s chairman, president,...
CMA was pleased to introduce Evan Wilson, Field Coordinator at the Department of the Interior, to the CMA membership. Wilson, a political appointee of the Trump Administration, specifically troubleshoots regulatory issues at the Bureau of Land Management and acts as a liaison between the Department’s staff in Colorado and the Department’s leadership in Washington D.C. CMA looks forward to...
Organizations across Colorado, including CMA, are cautiously watching the newly-elected Polis Administration and legislative leadership to chart their own path forward in 2019. The transition teams for Governor-elect Polis are holding web-based meetings to hear from citizens on topics related to various areas of state government (public safety, energy, etc.) in preparation for January. Further information is available at...
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The CMA Safety and Health Committee met on October 18, 2018 at the CMA office.
Topics of Discussion:
Discussion of topics and ideas that would be beneficial to member companies in the areas of safety and health (e.g. webinars, meetings with local MSHA personnel, best practices roundtables, sharable training materials, etc.)
Department of Labor Regulatory Improvement—Executive Order 13777
a. MSHA has requested...
The CMA Water Quality Committee is aligning its meetings with the Water Quality Forum's Permit Issues Workgroup. The committee encourages interested members to participate in the Permit Issues Workgroup meetings as this is the forum where the Water Quality Control Division encourages the regulated community to raise issues of concern. CMA is considering joining with other industry participants to...