Environment

Governor Moore's signature on the Utility RELIEF Act opened a narrow window of regulatory certainty that public institutions spent months preparing to use.

Roughly half of Colorado's population lives in fire-prone zones, and the state is racing to thin overgrown forests and grasslands before conditions worsen.

The predominantly Latino immigrant enclave already floods during king tides and sits on filled marshland that is slowly sinking as the bay rises.

The state needs to know if solar, wind, and batteries can replace roughly 1,000 megawatts of carbon-free hydropower before any decision on breaching the dams moves forward.

A Westcott Brook restoration project aims to cut flood damage downstream while filtering the phosphorus choking Lake Champlain's most impaired bay.

Rapid growth around Fort Cavazos has overwhelmed the small city's drainage, sending polluted runoff into Nolan Creek for years.