6,100 Coloradans Tell PUC: Don't Let Xcel Roll Back Energy Savings
On Earth Day, coalition of groups including Environment Colorado and the CoPIRG Foundation delivered over 6,000 petitions and dozens of letters from elected officials to the Public Utilities Commission...
View Article6,100 Coloradans Tell PUC: Don't Let Xcel Roll Back Energy Savings
On Earth Day, coalition of groups including Environment Colorado and the CoPIRG Foundation delivered over 6,000 petitions and dozens of letters from elected officials to the Public Utilities Commission...
View ArticleEPA Proposes First-Ever Limits on Carbon Pollution from Power Plants
Today, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed the first-ever federal limits on carbon pollution from power plants, the largest single source of global warming pollution in America. Environment...
View Article849,610 Pounds of Toxic Chemicals Dumped into Colorado’s Waterways
Industrial facilities dumped 849,610 pounds of toxic chemicals into Colorado’s waterways in 2012, according to a new report by Environment Colorado Research & Policy Center.The “Wasting Our...
View ArticleNew Report: Electric Cars Are Putting the Brakes on Pollution
The report, “Driving Cleaner: More Electric Vehicles Mean Less Pollution,” shows that electric vehicles could prevent more than a million metric tons of climate-changing carbon pollution annually in...
View ArticleMore than 800,000 Americans, hundreds of businesses support clean water
Over 11,000 Coloradans, Colorado farmers and businesses, join more than 800,000 Americans and 250 small businesses support restoring Clean Water Act protections to all of the nation's rivers and...
View ArticleReport: 20% percent solar in reach
Full report hereSolar power is growing so fast in Colorado that goals once considered ambitious are now seen as readily achievable, according to a new report by Environment Colorado Research &...
View ArticleNew Report: Denver among nation’s solar leaders
Link to full report.Denver, CO - Denver has more solar per capita than any other major city in the Rocky Mountain region, and ranks 7th nationally according to a new report by Environment Colorado...
View ArticleReport: Solar energy benefits vastly outweigh costs
View full report here.The Environment Colorado Research & Policy Center report, Shining Rewards: The Value of Rooftop Solar Power for Consumers and Society, found that the value of solar energy, on...
View ArticleReport: Action on Global Warming in Colorado Critical to the Future of the...
Durango, CO –Colorado is poised to play a major role in U.S. progress to address climate change, a new report said today. In the next decade, the state will cut an amount of global warming pollution...
View ArticleAmericans for Prosperity backing attacks on solar energy in Colorado, report...
DENVER, CO. - A national network of utility interest groups and fossil-fuel industry-funded think tanks is providing funding, model legislation, and political cover for anti-solar campaigns across the...
View Article6,100 Coloradans Tell PUC: Don't Let Xcel Roll Back Energy Savings
On Earth Day, coalition of groups including Environment Colorado and the CoPIRG Foundation delivered over 6,000 petitions and dozens of letters from elected officials to the Public Utilities Commission...
View Article6,100 Coloradans Tell PUC: Don't Let Xcel Roll Back Energy Savings
On Earth Day, coalition of groups including Environment Colorado and the CoPIRG Foundation delivered over 6,000 petitions and dozens of letters from elected officials to the Public Utilities Commission...
View Article6,100 Coloradans Tell PUC: Don't Let Xcel Roll Back Energy Savings
On Earth Day, coalition of groups including Environment Colorado and the CoPIRG Foundation delivered over 6,000 petitions and dozens of letters from elected officials to the Public Utilities Commission...
View Article6,100 Coloradans Tell PUC: Don't Let Xcel Roll Back Energy Savings
On Earth Day, coalition of groups including Environment Colorado and the CoPIRG Foundation delivered over 6,000 petitions and dozens of letters from elected officials to the Public Utilities Commission...
View ArticleReport: Wind now supplies enough energy for 674,000 homes in Colorado
Wind power has grown exponentially in Colorado over the last dozen years, and now supplies enough energy to power more than 674,000 homes, a new report from Environment Colorado Research & Policy...
View ArticleClean water wins as Congress rejects budget rider
Due to overwhelming public support, the Clean Water Rule has now withstood every attack that polluters could muster in Congress - the Barrasso bill, the CRA measure, and now an attempted budget rider....
View ArticleInteractive map shows local impacts of climate change
Every Colorado citizen lives in a county affected recently by weather-related disasters, such as wildfires according to an interactive, online map released today that crunches data from the federal...
View ArticleBriefing: wind, solar and other clean energy sources could supply 100% of our...
Denver, CO — Wind, solar, and other renewable sources now make up just about 10 percent of the nation’s energy mix, but transitioning to 100 percent clean energy is both necessary and feasible, a...
View ArticleChildren and Elderly at Risk from “Dangerous and Close” Fracking
Denver, CO. –More than 54,567 kindergarten through twelfth grade children in Colorado attend schools within one mile of a fracked oil or gas well, putting them at increased risk of health impacts from...
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