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In 2014, our region gained notoriety as the nation’s methane hot spot. Researchers at NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration noticed via satellite measurements a plume of...
DATE: Nov. 17, 2019 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
This week marks the 10th anniversary of long-simmering efforts to obtain added wilderness protections for the high ranges of the San Juan Mountains. Back in 2009, then Rep. John Salazar first...
DATE: Oct. 20, 2019 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
The summer brought a whirlwind of change to America’s bedrock environmental laws, or at least the rules that implement those laws. The Trump administration has made no secret of its disdain for...
DATE: Sept. 20, 2019 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
As Colorado fills up with people and our forests evolve in response to a changing climate, what happens to our renowned wildlife? Can we make space for migrating game herds and dispersing species?...
DATE: Aug. 17, 2019 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
Conservation advocates routinely harp on the single-minded focus of the Trump administration exhorting resource exploitation on our public lands. In case that just sounds like hyperbole, recent...
DATE: July 20, 2019 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
In just a few weeks, Public Service Co. of New Mexico will initiate the process to officially retire the San Juan Generating Station, the 1,600-megawatt, coal-fired behemoth outside Farmington that...
DATE: June 16, 2019 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
The Forest Service’s recent decision to approve using chain saws to cut out downed trees in wilderness areas might strike some as no big deal. But for longtime advocates for the wilderness concept...
DATE: May 19, 2019 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
Anyone who has traveled the U.S. Highway 550 corridor to Albuquerque recently knows for themselves the extent of greatly expanded drilling activity. Advances in fracking technology have unlocked...
DATE: April 21, 2019 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
Spring is in the air, and with it comes potentially big changes for our electric power supply. Leadership changes abound at both our local rural electric cooperative, La Plata Electric Association,...
DATE: March 18, 2019 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
Fans of Utah’s spectacular redrock country can savor congressional action this week that advanced protections for a million acres of the incomparable San Rafael Swell, and one of the Colorado...
DATE: Feb. 17, 2019 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
We who live in these parts sometimes call it the Four Corners, other times the San Juan Basin or even the Colorado Plateau. It’s reflective of the geographic flexibility of our home region, one...
DATE: Jan. 19, 2019 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
The comedian Lily Tomlin used to have a favorite shtick where she played Ernestine, the snorting, smirking phone operator. She would end her bit with the line, “We don’t care, we don’t have to,...
DATE: Dec. 16, 2018 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
Fort Lewis College is updating about a dozen panels at the Clock Tower in the center of campus to better recognize the past, "in a way that's fully inclusive of our Native American community on campus and the families directly affected by Indian boarding schools."
