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Congress reconvenes this month with major unfinished business around land conservation legislation of great significance to Southwest Colorado. After decades of analysis and consideration, last...
DATE: Jan. 16, 2021 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
The changing of the guard of presidential administrations frequently brings substantial reversals of previous rules and policies. The Trump administration gained notoriety for its widespread...
DATE: Dec. 19, 2020 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
The accelerating transition from coal-fired electricity to renewables is great news for the climate, but poses tough economic challenges to dependent communities like Farmington and Shiprock, New...
DATE: Nov. 22, 2020 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
A Montana judge recently ruled the head of the Bureau of Land Management had illegally served as the agency’s director for more than a year. That’s a big deal, seeing as it is the nation’s largest...
DATE: Oct. 17, 2020 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
Twenty years ago, Colorado wildlife officials restored long-missing lynx to the state’s forests and mountains. It was a joy to watch lynx bound away from their release point at Rio Grande Reservoir...
DATE: Sept. 19, 2020 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
As Congress nears the finish line this year, the fate of conservation legislation dealing with a million acres in Colorado is left hanging. The House of Representatives has now twice passed both...
DATE: Aug. 14, 2020 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
Last week, La Plata Electric Association inched closer to gaining the basic information it has long desired to evaluate whether it makes sense to stay with Tri-State Generation and Transmission as...
DATE: July 17, 2020 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
Our region took a major step toward a cleaner energy future recently when New Mexico regulators gave Public Service Co. of New Mexico approval to retire the coal-fired San Juan Generating Station...
DATE: June 21, 2020 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
While much of the country grapples with the coronavirus pandemic, it’s full speed ahead at the Department of Interior approving oil and gas development projects. One of the most contentious is a...
DATE: May 16, 2020 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
One of the noticeable, and remarkable, changes in recent years has been the dramatic improvement in visibility and air pollution in the Four Corners. Longer-term residents routinely comment on the...
DATE: April 19, 2020 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
The transformation in Colorado’s energy landscape over the past year is nothing short of breathtaking. A good part of that transformation owes to the leadership of La Plata Electric Association....
DATE: March 23, 2020 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
Last week, the Bureau of Land Management finalized plans to open millions of acres of southern Utah to energy development, oil and gas drilling, coal mining and a variety of other extraction...
DATE: Feb. 12, 2020 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
