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COLORADO
Coal’s status as dominant source of power fading
By Aldo Svaldi
The Denver Post

The Trump administration will repeal the Clean Power Plan, saying Monday it wants to give states more of a say on their coal power plants. But the Clean...
COAL-FIRED POWER PLANTS
Trump plan new fuel for old facilities
By Jennifer A. Dlouhy
Bloomberg News
Tucked inside the Trump administration’s plan to ease carbon dioxide limits is a change that could breathe new life into scores of aging coal-fired power plants.
Exp...
Shared from the 2018-08-25 The Denver Post eEdition
COAL-FIRED POWER PLANTS
Trump plan new fuel for old facilities
By Jennifer A. Dlouhy
Bloomberg News
Tucked inside the Trump administration’s plan to ease carbon dioxide limits is a change that could breathe new li...
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON» Conserving oil is no longer an economic imperative for the U.S., the Trump administration declares in a major new policy statement that threatens to undermine decades of government campaigns for gas-thrifty cars and other conservation programs.
The position was out...
21Jun, 2018
By Anne Manning
A new study that draws on previous work by Colorado State University scientists finds that the U.S. oil and gas industry emits nearly 60 percent more methane than current Environmental Protection Agency estimates. That ...
By Anne Manning
A new study that draws on previous work by Colorado State University scientists finds that the U.S. oil and gas industry emits nearly 60 percent more methane than current Environmental Protection Agency estimates. That amounts to ...
21Jun, 2018
By Anne Manning
A new study that draws on previous work by Colorado State University scientists finds that the U.S. oil and gas industry emits nearly 60 percent more methane than current Environmental Protection Agency estimates. That ...
EVAN HALPER LA TIMES
MAY 29, 2018 | 3:00 AM
At a time when acts of defiance against the Trump administration are routine in Sacramento, the rebuke that breezed through the California Assembly this month still came as a jolt. Even Trump loyalists in the chamber joined in.
The message t...
Shared from the 2018-05-09 The Denver Post eEdition
Briefs
HIGH-ETHANOL GAS TO BE SOLD
YEAR-ROUND
WASHINGTON » President Donald Trump will allow year-round sales of renewable fuel
with blends of 15 percent ethanol as part of an emerging deal to make changes to the
fede...
Shared from the 2018-05-09 The Denver Post eEdition
HIGH-ETHANOL GAS TO BE SOLD YEAR-ROUND
WASHINGTON » President Donald Trump will allow year-round sales of renewable fuel with
blends of 15 percent ethanol as part of an emerging deal to make changes to the federal
ethan...
BERLIN»Handing environmentalists a landmark victory, a German court ruled Tuesday that cities can ban diesel cars and trucks to combat air pollution, a decision with far-reaching and costly implications in the country where the diesel engine was invented in the 1890s.
The ruling by the Federal Admi...
Shared from the 2018-01-09 The Denver Post eEdition
FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION
Regulators turn down proposal to boost coal, nuclear markets
By Evan Halper Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON» A Trump administration plan to force utilities to purchase more coal and nuclear powe...
By Evan Halper Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON» A Trump administration plan to force utilities to purchase more coal and nuclear power was rejected Monday by federal regulators, undermining the president’s energy agenda and his promise to revive the coal industry.
The five-member Federal En...
Researchers found wastewater increased pressure along fault lines in southern Colorado, northern New Mexico
By Dan Elliott The Associated Press
University of Colorado graduate student Jenny Nakai looks at seismographic data in Weld County. Nakai is the lead author of a study that found mor...
By Matthew Daly The Associated Press
WASHINGTON»Rebuffing the Trump administration, a federal judge on Wednesday ordered the Interior Department to reinstate an Obama-era regulation aimed at restricting harmful methane emissions from oil and gas production on federal lands.
The order, by a...
Erie and Lafayette may soon require oil and gas operators to map their pipelines throughout the cities, officials say, signaling the potential for heightened local control months after similar legislation fell along party lines at the state Capitol.
Such measures — and similar legislation aimed at ...
A federal judge has handed a lifeline to efforts to block the Dakota Access pipeline, ruling Wednesday that the US Army Corps of Engineers did not adequately consider the possible impacts of an oil spill where the pipeline passes under the Missouri river.
US district judge James Boasberg said ...
States across the U.S. have been introducing legislation that would punish people for switching to electric vehicles. Since the start of 2017, six states (Indiana, South Carolina, Kansas, Tennessee, New Hampshire, and Montana) have introduced legislation that would require EV owners to pay a fee of ...
