Environment

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What’s up with that brown haze across Colorado’s Front Range when it’s not summer ozone season?

This week's visibility alert extends through 4 p.m. Friday and it is effective in Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and Jefferson counties.

The skyline of downtown Denver stands in the background as motorists head northbound along South Broadway, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024, in Englewood, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

The Bureau of Reclamation’s four proposed plans are not set in stone, but for the first time offer insight into how federal leaders are planning for the future of the Colorado River.

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Feds release options for future of Colorado River as negotiations between states stall

Liberty Oilfield Services CEO Chris Wright ...

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Coloradan tapped to lead Department of Energy likely to expand fossil fuel production, decenter climate change

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Extreme drought in Colorado could come every 6 years — instead of every 1,000 — due to climate change, study finds

“The droughts of today and the droughts of the future are not going to look like the droughts of the past,” said Joel Lisonbee, a scientist with the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado...

climate change

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A new program to electrify Front Range food trucks helps eliminate a “gaseous, terrible thing”

Regional Air Quality Council is rolling out a new program, Engines Off for Food Trucks, granting up to $20,000 to help food truck owners buy power systems that run on electricity to operate equipment.

pollution

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New greenhouse gas projections show Colorado moving in right direction to reduce pollution

Colorado’s climate policy teams put out a report every two years that attempts to quantify how much greenhouse gas pollution is being spewed into the air by transportation, the oil and gas industry and more.