2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (935+ words) Two weeks after about 4.25 million gallons of raw sewage poured into the Arkansas River at Pueblo, the river below John Martin Reservoir is testing clean again. The stretch from Fountain Creek through La Junta is not, and the state's advisory…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (380+ words) Exceptional drought - the most severe category tracked by the National Drought Mitigation Center - expanded again across Colorado’s central mountains over the past week, while heavy rain brought a measure of relief to the state’s northeast corner. The U.S. Drought…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (431+ words) The lawn at the Utah Governor’s Mansion will become undone on Friday at the hands of water conservation advocates and public employees to make space for water-wise and pollinator-friendly plants amid one the most severe droughts the state has recorded....

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (345+ words) Two environmental groups sued the Trump administration Tuesday, alleging the Bureau of Land Management violated federal law when it leased more than 134,000 acres of public lands in Colorado for oil and gas drilling earlier this year. In their lawsuit, filed…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (431+ words) New Mexico Commissioner of Public Lands Stephanie Garcia Richard on Friday signed an executive order that bans all new uranium mining projects on the more than 13 million acres of state trust lands she oversees. Garcia Richard, a Democrat who has…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (753+ words) The Trump administration on Friday moved to exempt oil projects in federal territory on the west side of the North Slope from environmental reviews that have been standard for decades. An industry-initiated proposed rule announced by the U.S. Bureau of Land…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (1025+ words) Officials in Page, Arizona, a small city near the Glen Canyon Dam, passed a land sale agreement last fall that establishes a framework for future construction of a data center. The sale of the 500-acre parcel about a mile away…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (334+ words) The Pinal County Board of Supervisors has rejected a proposed 3,400-acre data center near Eloy, in the southern part of the state. The move came after hundreds of rural protesters packed planning meetings and the board's final vote. The La…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (286+ words) This past winter's snow drought across the western U.S. was about four times more likely because of human-caused climate change, according to a new study from the Colorado School of Mines. The numbers are much worse in the Upper Colorado Basin,…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (269+ words) EarthTalk – Has AC tech improved to curb climate impacts? Kiowa County Press EarthTalk – Has AC tech improved to curb climate impacts? Have there been any innovations in air conditioning technology in recent years to help mitigate climate impacts of staying…...