Category: Colorado
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Why Colorado Residents Can’t Keep Fracking Industry Out of Their Backyards
The city manager told the council that he thought the city had done a stellar job of answering all questions except the questions concerning public health. But he said that shouldn’t concern the council since the public’s health was a matter of state and federal concern. It was not their responsibility.
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Will the Colorado River Get Fracked?
More than a hundred thousand active oil and gas wells in the Colorado River already exist, and approximately a hundred thousand new wells—all to be fracked—are proposed. Many of these existing wells are near streams that connect to the Colorado River and some are …
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Dozens of U.S. Cities Join the Bike-Sharing Bandwagon
At the start of 2013, the U.S. was home to 22 modern public bike-sharing programs. By spring 2014, that number will likely double as a flurry of cities joins the more than 500 bike-sharing communities worldwide. With the expansions of current programs …
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Community Group Launches Cutting-Edge Project to Test Air Quality for Fracking Chemicals
CITIZENS FOR A HEALTHY COMMUNITY — This cutting edge approach to conducting an air baseline project uses backpack air sampling instead of a stationary sampling location. This project will collect …
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Renewable Energy vs. Koch Brothers and ALEC
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL — What is truly remarkable about U.S. state-level support for clean, renewable energy standards is that, even in these times of supposedly “cheap and abundant natural gas that will last for decades to come” is that renewable energy and efficiency …