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Frederick, Firestone, and Dacono: Building on what matters
Frederick, Firestone, and Dacono now seek a renewed focus to maintain their small-town identities while managing explosive suburban housing growth.
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The Power of Local Action: How Municipalities Are Making a Difference in Sustainability Efforts
Has “sustainability” become an eye-rolling buzzword that’s tossed around boardrooms and shoehorned into public policy as an afterthought?
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Coloradans Launch ‘Fracking Fuels the Flames’ Campaign
A grassroots, volunteer-led coalition of Coloradans is putting a spotlight on the role that oil and gas production plays in “fueling the flames” of wildfires and other impacts of the climate crisis on communities. Comments from Heidi Leathwood, climate policy…
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Extraction Oil & Gas, Inc. seeks to lease Boulder County-owned minerals
Boulder County received a letter from Extraction Oil & Gas, Inc., on July 5, 2022, offering to lease county-owned mineral rights in connection with Extraction’s “Blue Paintbrush” well pad planned in Weld County.
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New Maps Expose Methane ‘Super-Emitter’ Sites
Super-emitters are responsible for nearly 40% of methane emissions in five U.S. oil and gas production basins, according to a new study by Carbon Mapper, University of Arizona, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Arizona State University and Environmental Defense Fund. Comments…
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Big Oil Keeping Prices High as Crude Prices Drop
New analysis of the spot price of oil, a point-in-time price of crude that impacts global retail pricing, shows that oil and gas companies are keeping prices high at the pump as they generate record profits. Comments from Jordan Schreiber,…
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Month in Review | March 2022
A comprehensive review of some of the main events north of the 104th, Boulder County, and the surrounding area all within the past month.
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Legalizing Oil Drilling, Criminalizing Sustainability
In 2009, Colorado Democratic Governor Bill Ritter spoke to a crowd of 2000 people at a three-day conference of the Colorado Oil and Gas Association. He was direct about the future of methane in the state: “Natural gas is a…
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Voices from Standing Rock: Why Standing Rock is Still the Frontline for Policy Reform
In the first week of his presidency, Donald J. Trump released a memorandum to expedite the permitting process of Dakota Access. Standing Rock has become a uniquely potent leverage point against the policies of the Trump Administration. Offshoots are popping…
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Finding the Eclectic Elements
We Got the Funk Spruce jewelry is very obviously inspired by the landscape, especially with pieces named Maple and River. You can see it in the irregular, flowing pieces that seem so intricately effortless. We adore these earrings that are…
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