Colorado appeals court ruling calls for state to consider halting oil and gas...
The Colorado Court of Appeals said Thursday the state’s oil and gas commission must consider a petition from a group of Boulder teenagers to stop issuing permits for new wells until an independent...
View ArticleBoulder County says its new oil and gas rules are the 'most stringent' in...
Saying they regretted their inability to ban oil and gas operations, Boulder County’s three commissioners on Thursday did what they said was the next best thing. They adopted new regulations governing...
View ArticleA focus on Aurora's water and transportation
Decades ago, the city of Aurora embarked on crucial infrastructure projects to ensure that residents of Colorado’s third-largest city will have enough water and transportation infrastructure as it...
View ArticleThought Leader: Assured Flow’s Elijah Kempton navigated cultural differences...
The first time Elijah Kempton’s boss asked him to head overseas to London to open a new office, the timing wasn’t right. He wanted to go. But he was busy planning his wedding. Kempton, now 39, had...
View ArticleColorado's NREL could face severe cuts under Trump, says report
Budget proposals from President Donald Trump’s administration could cut deeply into the operations of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden. Trump’s “skinny budget” proposal,...
View ArticleDIA sets revenue records in 2016
A month after announcing it had set a new record for annual passenger traffic last year, Denver International Airport revealed that it notched another record in 2016: for revenue. DIA's gross revenues...
View ArticleTraveling down a tube at airline speeds: Is hyperloop coming to Colorado?
It currently takes more than an hour to travel from Greeley to Denver International Airport. But imagine making the trip in about five minutes via a floating shuttle in a vacuum-sealed tube called a...
View ArticleXcel Energy, Boulder consider a path to dodge their divorce
A years-long, contentious battle may be ending between the city of Boulder and Xcel Energy Inc. over which entity will provide electricity to the city’s residents and businesses. Tonight, the Boulder...
View ArticleColorado has 'a very strong case' to land hyperloop technology, exec says
Three teams competing in an international challenge organized by Hyperloop One to land the first working hyperloop transpiration system pitched Colorado as the perfect place to put the next-generation...
View ArticleWhat Denver officials learned when they lost last year's $50M Smart City...
Denver lost out last year to Columbus, Ohio, in a nationwide competition to land a $50 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation to help pay to implement next generation transportation...
View ArticleDIA's newest lot sports lots of shaded parking (via solar power panels overhead)
Denver International Airport’s new parking lot opened Monday, sporting solar power panels that not only generate power for the grid, but also generate shade for 609 of the total 800 parking slots. The...
View ArticleDigging for new clean-tech ideas: Companies compete to find innovations in...
Three years after the Colorado Cleantech Industries Association held an international competition for startups offering innovations to the state’s oil and gas industry, the competition has expanded to...
View ArticleDenver’s DCP Midstream partnering with Kinder Morgan on Texas pipeline
Denver’s DCP Midstream LP, the biggest processor of natural gas in the country, is teaming up with Kinder Morgan Inc., one of the largest energy infrastructure companies in North America, to build a...
View ArticleLawsuit claims new oil and gas wells will be too close to Weld County school
Environmental advocacy groups and the NAACP’s Colorado chapter have filed a suit over an oil and gas site they say is too close to a school near Greeley that has a large population of poor and minority...
View ArticleNREL's cleantech incubator will grow with $20 million Wells Fargo investment
A $10 million 2014 partnership between Wells Fargo & Co. and Colorado-based National Renewable Energy Laboratory to help cleantech startups get on their feet has been so successful that the bank is...
View ArticleEnergy giant to sell natural gas assets in Colorado, New Mexico for $3 billion
International oil company ConocoPhillips said today it will sell all its interests in the San Juan Basin, which sprawls across southwestern Colorado and into New Mexico, to an affiliate of Hilcorp...
View ArticleBill would make it harder to pool mineral rights for drilling in Colorado
Two Democrats in the Colorado House of Representatives have introduced a bill to make it harder for oil and gas companies to force reluctant owners to lease mineral rights. Under Colorado laws that...
View ArticleColorado Legislature sends bill regulating driverless vehicles to Hickenlooper
Colorado legislators have sent to Gov. John Hickenlooper a bill that would put the state at the forefront of regulating self-driving cars. Senate Bill 213, sponsored by Republican state Sen. Owen Hill...
View ArticleColorado breaking with tradition
Ola Najm Alasaadi watches the women who ride the train with her. She’s heading for classes at the Community College of Denver. They’re heading to jobs downtown. “I see them going to work at a nice...
View ArticleBig traffic changes are coming to Lincoln and Broadway in Denver
Denver has big changes for Lincoln Street and South Broadway, two major arteries into and out of downtown’s southern flank. Denver plans to test an expansion of the city’s dedicated bus-only lanes on...
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