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We Can’t Frack our Way to Clean Air

Posted on April 6, 2012 by

With mounting revelations that air pollution from fracking threatens public health, you’d think that the Obama Administration would be rushing to ensure these harmful emissions are kept in check. After all, reducing this pollution actually makes the oil and gas industry … Continue reading →

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Coalorado Plateau

Posted on March 24, 2012 by

Superlatives are an understatement on the Colorado Plateau. Home to Grand Canyon, Zion, Arches, and more, the region is the American West’s defining collision of contrasts pushed to some of the most beautiful extremes.  The land, the water, the people, … Continue reading →

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All Coal Goes Back to…Portland, Oregon?

Posted on March 14, 2012 by

Meet Pacificorp, a utility company that owns and operates more coal-fired power plants than anyone else in the American West and that happens to be headquartered, of all places, in Portland, Oregon. Which is kind of odd because when I … Continue reading →

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More Gas Pains on the Climate Front

Posted on February 8, 2012 by

A new study slated to be published in the Journal of Geophysical Research reports that natural gas producers in the Denver-Julesberg Basin north of Denver are losing 4% of their gas to the air because of leaks and venting. That lost … Continue reading →

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Wasted Opportunity

Posted on February 5, 2012 by

I wrote previously on Xcel Energy’s plans to lock into long-term coal contracts for coal that, well, didn’t seem to exist. Well, the hype continues.  Most recently, Peabody Energy announced plans to invest $200 million to move its Twentymile coal mining … Continue reading →

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Coal Continues to Take Ugly Center Stage in West

Posted on January 18, 2012 by

Yes, President Obama rejected the Keystone XL pipeline for now, giving us some hope that perhaps our government might be able to make the hard decisions needed to confront global warming and move beyond fossil fuels. But then again, it’s hard … Continue reading →

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Fixing a Fossil Fuel Fiasco in the Forest

Posted on January 4, 2012 by

Amidst all the well-founded uproar over the Bureau of Land Management’s proposal to lease 30,000 acres of the North Fork Valley of western Colorado for oil and gas drilling, WildEarth Guardians has taken aim at another fossil fuel fiasco: an … Continue reading →

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ClimateWest Podcast: Thank you Western Colorado Jobs Alliance!

Posted on December 9, 2011 by

Listen to the latest ClimateWest podcast by WildEarth Guardians Climate and Energy Program Director, Jeremy Nichols.  Click below: In this ClimateWest podcast, we give thanks to the Western Colorado Jobs Alliance and their success in bringing the name and work … Continue reading →

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The Forest Service Still Doesn’t Care (An Update and Lament)

Posted on December 6, 2011 by

I wrote last week about the Forest Service’s less than friendly response to public comments over a proposal to expand coal mining into western Colorado’s Sunset Trail Roadless Area. As an update, the Forest Service did post an “edited” version … Continue reading →

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No Thank You for your Comment

Posted on November 28, 2011 by

[Editor's Note:  Read the latest ClimateWest update on this post here.] It’s bad enough the U.S. Forest Service has greenlighted the expansion of a western Colorado coal mine into an undeveloped roadless area, now the Agency is lobbing contemptuous insults at … Continue reading →

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