EVRAZ, Xcel looking for new solar contractor
Rebidding surfaced in debate over PUC legislation
EVRAZ Rocky Mountain Steel and Xcel Energy are having to find a new contractor for the planned 240-megawatt solar power array that is part of the power...
Did Colorado Legislature deepen rural-urban divide?
Southwest Colorado lawmakers score key victories
Southwest Colorado lawmakers were instrumental in passing groundbreaking bills this legislative session that guarantee free early childhood education; lay the groundwork for a cheaper, state-backed insurance plan; and demand...
The Capitol clock is ticking as Colorado dems worry about the fate of some...
With only five days left in the legislative session, state lawmakers still have more than 200 bills left on the calendar, leading many to worry some may die not because of policy concerns, but...
Extremists Take on Colorado: Progressives’ overreach in Legislature, passing laws early, late, during a...
Never in contemporary Colorado politics has one party wielded so much power and control with such overreaching, unrestrained revolutionary zeal. Democrats won big in 2018, taking leadership of both chambers of the Legislature and...
Done deal: Newmont Goldcorp becomes world’s No. 1 gold miner
Newmont Mining’s $10 billion acquisition of Canada’s Goldcorp closed Thursday, giving rise to Newmont Goldcorp Corporation (NYSE: NEM)(TSX: NGT), the world’s largest gold producer by market value, output and reserves.
The mammoth company, to be led by...
Clean air, climate change expert selected for state’s top environmental health position
John Putnam, chair and longtime member of the Regional Air Quality Council, will assume the top environmental health role in Colorado, starting May 6. As the Director of Environmental Programs at the Colorado Department...
EVRAZ pushes back against climate bill
HB 1261 calls for 90 percent emission cuts by 2050, but doesn’t say how
As majority Democrats in the Legislature are pushing a climate-change bill aimed at nearly eliminating greenhouse gases, EVRAZ Rocky Mountain...
Dems set carbon-cutting goal of 50% by 2030; activists call it weak tea
Update: The bill, HB-1261, passed the House on April 16 by a 41-23 party-line vote.
Political realities inside the Gold Dome are tempering lawmakers’ efforts to slash Colorado’s planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions.
Democrats who earlier in...
Colo. senators join others to fully fund LWCF
U.S. Sens. Cory Gardner and Michael Bennet were part of a bipartisan group of lawmakers Tuesday who introduced a bill to fully fund the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund.
That fund, which was brought...
Colowyo announces extending life of mine several decades during State of the Community address
Craig and Moffat County elected officials gave residents a vision of the future Monday, April 1, at the Moffat County Fairgrounds Pavilion.
The annual State of the Community address unveiled new logos from the Craig...