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America's Dirtiest Secretnew

The oil and gas industry's contamination problems are so large, they have literally been deemed impossible to prevent or even clean up by both industry and government. As a result, an unimaginable tonnage of contamination is being placed into our environment every year.
Boulder Weekly  |  Joel Dyer and Jefferson Dodge  |  03-17-2014  |  Environment

Boulder County Floods: What's in the Water?new

A look at potential flood-related impacts on human health and the environment.
Boulder Weekly  |  Joel Dyer  |  09-26-2013  |  Environment

Waste Injection Wells: The Earth's Invisible Dumpnew

With more than 30 trillion gallons of toxic waste having been injected under the surface of the Earth, what happens if our belief that what goes down can’t come up is wrong?
Boulder Weekly  |  Joel Dyer and Jefferson Dodge  |  09-21-2012  |  Environment

Fracking Lessonsnew

What everyone in gasland can learn from the decade-long fight in Pavillion, Wyo.
Boulder Weekly  |  Joel Dyer  |  06-01-2012  |  Environment

Valmont Butte's Got a Dam Problemnew

Suspect actions on the part of the EPA and State of Colorado in their testing and analysis of potential pathways to human exposure from Allied Chemical's Valmont Butte Mill site.
Boulder Weekly  |  Joel Dyer and Jefferson Dodge and Elizabeth Miller  |  03-02-2012  |  Environment

Ronald Reagan and the Largest EPA Scandal in Historynew

President Ronald Reagan's controversial environmental policies may explain why Valmont Butte is still contaminated.
Boulder Weekly  |  Joel Dyer  |  02-17-2012  |  Environment

The Ghosts of Valmont Buttenew

Ever since the city of Boulder purchased its Valmont Butte property, city taxpayers have been picking up the tab to pay for the environmental sins committed by more than a century’s worth of long-departed users at the site. And that tab may be getting bigger as more ghosts from the property’s past continue to reveal themselves.
Boulder Weekly  |  Joel Dyer and Jefferson Dodge and Elizabeth Miller  |  01-26-2012  |  Environment

Behind the GMO Curtainnew

Big Ag threatens war on Boulder, Colorado.
Boulder Weekly  |  Jefferson Dodge and Joel Dyer  |  12-15-2011  |  Environment

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