AltWeeklies Wire
Do GMOs Belong On Open Space?new
Five years later, Boulder County revisits the ‘GMOs on Open Space’ controversy. What we know about GMOs has grown, about the effects the herbicides and pesticides used in their cultivation have on our environment and health. So with all we know, the question is, what will we grow?
Boulder Weekly |
Caitlin Elizabeth Rockett |
02-26-2016 |
Environment
Cynicism Confirmednew
New Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission draft regulations fail to meet expectations.
Boulder Weekly |
Angela K. Evans |
11-05-2015 |
Environment
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
Paving a Contaminated Parkwaynew
Activists warn of plutonium under Colorado's proposed Jefferson Parkway.
Boulder Weekly |
Elizabeth Miller |
01-11-2013 |
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
Tags: toxic waste, waste
A Road Too Farnew
The November election presents plenty of hot-button issues. But amid the fuss about the economy and health care and other social issues, questions of how to handle our public lands and how to protect our environment also hang in the balance.
Boulder Weekly |
Elizabeth Miller |
08-28-2012 |
Environment
Tags: Election
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
ClimateStupid: Why One Innovative Energy Program in Colorado Was Killednew
When Boulder County's ClimateSmart loan program was suspended last year, it left hundreds of local homeowners holding the bag -- a bag they now need to fill with money.
Boulder Weekly |
Jefferson Dodge |
04-08-2011 |
Environment
Boulder Scientists' Work Will Take Center Stage at the Copenhagen Climate Conferencenew
From key data in a presentation by former Vice President Al Gore to time-lapse photography of deteriorating glaciers to a giant high-tech globe that will be used throughout the event, Boulder's fingerprints will be all over the United Nations Climate Change Conference, to be held Dec. 7–18.
Boulder Weekly |
Jefferson Dodge |
11-23-2009 |
Environment
Boulder Struggles to Balance Conservation with Recreationnew
Boulder's draft Grasslands Ecosytem Management Plan was lauded by conservationists as a long overdue effort to inventory the city's grasslands and investigate the threats those lands face. But the document has drawn fire from a coalition of recreationists who believe that the plan exhibits an "anti-trail" bias.
Boulder Weekly |
Pamela White |
03-16-2009 |
Environment
