Hickenlooper seeks to cool heated reaction spurred by proposed air-quality rules
DENVER — Governor John Hickenlooper is seeking to reassure environmentalists, medical groups, small businesses and residents disappointed and angered by what they call weak draft regulations written...
View ArticleIn Senate run, Gardner may be hard-pressed to sell far-right record
News broke Wednesday that Colorado Congressman Cory Gardner will give up his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives and run to replace Mark Udall in the U.S. Senate. The way the news came — in a...
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Are you ready for more floods and wildfires?
FRISCO, Colo. — We probably didn’t need another glossy government climate report to tell us we may be on the brink of a climate cliff. Watching for a decade as Colorado forests turned red and died,...
View ArticleBob Beauprez headlines pro-coal rally
DENVER — Republican gubernatorial candidate and former Congressman Bob Beauprez joined a rally of more than 100 coal industry advocates and employees before the state capital today to protest the...
View ArticleRebrands in the wind
Labor Day is behind us and, generally speaking, it’s that time in the campaign season when candidates go for a rebrand. The Gardner campaign has recently released two new ads into this post-Labor Day...
View ArticleUdall tries to hold on to Senate seat in tight fight with Gardner
By tonight, Coloradans should know whether the state’s senior U.S. senator is headed back to Washington, D.C., or if Colorado has a new junior senator. Efforts in the past two weeks by the campaigns of...
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And they’re off: Colorado General Assembly Opening Day
DENVER — Politics watchers, or at least John Oliver viewers, know that most of the law-passing that matters in this country happens at the state level — in state capitol buildings coast to coast....
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Bennet ranked fifth most bipartisan Democrat in Senate
The Washington Post crunched the numbers on the votes of the 114th Congress so far and came up with a list of the ten most bipartisan lawmakers of each party in each chamber. Sen. Michael Bennet ranks...
View ArticleClean energy wins big in Supreme Court. What exactly happened?
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission can continue deciding how much consumers get paid to reduce their energy use. It’s been touted as a “tremendous win” for...
View ArticlePublic fracking study session postponed. Adams County commissioners to meet...
The Adams County Board of Commissioners has postponed a public fracking information session scheduled for Tuesday in order to meet privately with the county attorney. The county government website...
View ArticleHow Colorado lawmakers are reacting to Donald Trump— with state laws
Colorado’s legislative session began Wednesday with a signal to Washington, D.C.: We’re watching. On the Democratic side, Thornton Rep. Joe Salazar, who might consider a run for governor next year,...
View ArticleThe Indy’s Marianne Goodland on this week’s Politics Unplugged
This week on KMGH-7’s Politics Unplugged: the hospital provider fee, what’s next for transportation and how did the 2017 General Assembly fare?
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Five(ish) takeaways from the 2017 legislative session
The 2017 legislative session may have done more for rural Colorado than any session in the past two decades. “Rural, rural, rural! Music to my ears!” As Colorado’s population grows, largely along the...
View ArticleRepublicans running for Colorado governor: Who’s the biggest defender of oil...
Republican candidates for governor vigorously defended Colorado’s oil and gas operators on Wednesday, including Cynthia Coffman who said she has worked on behalf of the industry as Colorado’s sitting...
View ArticleThree Colorado Democrats debate fracking as they run for governor of Colorado
During their first televised debate, former State Treasurer Cary Kennedy, ex-state Sen. Mike Johnston, and current Lt. Gov. Donna Lynne drilled down on whether and how to further regulate fracking in...
View ArticleDrilling, one mile outside Colorado’s Great Sand Dunes
Since President Donald Trump was sworn into office last year, the administration has used its “energy dominance” agenda to require states to conduct quarterly sales on public lands across the West. As...
View ArticleHickenlooper calls his executive order for orphan gas wells the ‘second-best...
Colorado’s Democratic governor, John Hickenlooper, on Wednesday signed an executive order focused on addressing the safety concerns around orphaned wells— while simultaneously admitting that the order...
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Trump dreams about a new energy boom. Oil leases could cover this mountain...
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View ArticleWe know where Walker Stapleton stands on oil and gas. Which Jared Polis would...
DENVER — Dueling speeches in a sparkling ballroom from Colorado’s major candidates for governor today highlighted a political minefield in the coming campaign over the state’s oil-and-gas industry. At...
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Guest Post: Protecting our climate is a bridge issue — not a partisan wedge...
This is about our own lives and the future of everyone and everything we care about. When I was in Washington, DC in June I witnessed a heartbreaking presentation by a young man from the Republic of...
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