Environment & Climate Change

Nothing says Earth Day like a newspaper packed with extra circulars exhorting you to honor the day by going out and buying stuff. Here's the ultimate...


The Arizona Intake Towers at the Hoover Dam July 30, 2007 in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Arizona. The white "bathtub ring" on the rocks is from mineral deposits left by higher levels of water. A seven-year drought and increased water demand spurred by explosive population growth in the Southwest has caused the water level at Lake Mead, which supplies water to Las Vegas, Arizona and Southern California, to drop over 100 feet to its lowest level since the 1960s. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

"No Fishing From Harbor," a roadside sign warns, but the harbor is long gone.

Below, a dusty desert landscape dotted with mesquite and creosote...


David Harsanyi, Denver Post Editorial Writer

In the very near future, environmentally conscious Americans may have to ask themselves if individual and economic freedom matters.


Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards speaks at a town hall meeting at the University of South Carolina in Aiken on Sunday, Jan. 13, 2008. (Photo: Damon Winter/NYT)

Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards on Monday said a proposed coal-fired power plant shouldn't be built in northeastern South Carolina,...


The moon sets over a ridge of the Roan Plateau near the western Colorado community of Rifle in this photograph taken on Friday, Oct. 26, 2007. (Photo: David Zalubowski/AP)

Colorado Sen. Wayne Allard wants to work with Gov. Bill Ritter on his recommendations for managing the federal land on the Roan Plateau, but still...


Environmentalists on Thursday asked lawmakers to offer tax breaks for solar power and energy efficiency, lay out a plan to keep water flowing in the...


The Bureau of Land Management has released details of two proposals for energy development in the Pinedale Anticline in southwest Wyoming.


A conservation group sued the Interior Department on Thursday, seeking documents about decisions on endangered species the group alleges were tainted...


Draft legislation would give the state more oversight of efforts to modify the weather to produce more rain and snowfall.

Such efforts include...


Gov. Bill Ritter has received an A-minus from Colorado's conservation groups for his leadership on environmental issues in his first year in office.


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