Colorado
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Anti-fracking activists hit a roadblock in Colorado
The secretary of state says two initiatives to crack down on fracking didn't get enough signatures to make the ballot. Activists disagree.
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Colorado could vote to limit fracking on November ballot
The oil and gas industry is already fighting back.
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Gold King Mine still leaking one year after spill
But so are abandoned mines across the west.
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Cattle pollution is pissing off the Rocky Mountain ecosystem
Excess nitrogen is overfertilizing Colorado's parks and causing all sorts of strange problems.
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Getting stoned in Boulder will now come with a carbon fee
Boulder County, in the weed kingdom of Colorado, plans to start charging pot producers extra to offset their carbon costs.
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Colorado governor participated in ‘ritual-like’ drinking of fracking fluid
We’d never drink from a cup that Halliburton handed us. But Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper is a braver man, apparently.
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This summer’s blockbuster: Tiny House, THE MOVIE
The best cinema taps into our secret dreams, and TINY taps in specifically to our secret dreams about running away to Colorado and building a tiny house. Thus, we think it’s reasonable to assume it’ll be bigger than Avengers. TINY chronicles filmmaker Christopher Smith’s attempt to build a tiny house more or less from scratch. […]
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This image of the Colorado wildfire scar will blow your mind
This image from NASA (click to embiggen) shows the scar from the Waldo Canyon fire in Colorado. It’s a false-color image — the fields aren’t actually running red with blood out there, yet — but the size of that burned patch is no illusion. Compare it to the city of Colorado Springs in the lower […]
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Staggering video of a family returning to their destroyed home after Colorado fires
“I’m convinced that this planet is warming and that this is part of the result of that,” says Colorado wildfire victim Hani Ahmad while looking at the ruins of his house. “The West is a tinderbox … I’m terrified for everybody in the West.”