Why now might be the best time to buy an EV in Colorado
The state EV tax credit shrinks next year. The federal tax credit might go away altogether. And dealers are offering mind-boggling discounts in the meantime.
By Sam Brasch
Colorado still has a middling recycling rate, but residents are wasting less overall
The latest annual recycling report shows Colorado is sending less garbage to landfills, compost and recycling facilities.
By Sam Brasch
State Sen. Chris Hansen will leave the legislature to lead the La Plata Electrical Association
The utility announced the decision a week after one of the legislature’s loudest voices on climate change won another four-year term.
By fixing a data error, Colorado inches closer to meeting its climate goals
The state is set to fall short of climate benchmarks for 2025 and 2030, but it’s closer to reaching the goals than previously estimated.
By Sam Brasch
The culprit in Colorado’s latest wolf death was another wolf
It’s wolf-eat-wolf out there. The predator was one of 10 captured in Oregon and released in Colorado late last year.
By Sam Brasch
Election day voting brings joy, angst for Colorado participants
Colorado makes it easy to vote early, and from wherever you are, but there is still just something a little special about going to the polls on election day.
Colorado tracked a wolf south of Interstate 70 for the first time
Colorado Parks and Wildlife has always expected wolves would expand the territory south of the state’s biggest east-west highway.
By Sam Brasch
A donation from Chevron raises questions about corporate support for election reform in Colorado
Supporters of Proposition 131 say the overhaul would mean more popular candidates, but the last-minute support from Colorado’s biggest oil and gas producer has fueled new criticism from opponents.
By Sam Brasch
Colorado rolls out first phase of a new federally funded program for climate-friendly homes
The latest funding announcement doesn’t open applications for the rebates many homeowners have been waiting for, but those are on their way in 2025.
By Sam Brasch
Another smoggy summer pushes the Front Range closer to a federal ozone crackdown
Some air quality advocates say it’s time for the state to ask the U.S. EPA to take preemptive action on the stubborn pollution problem.
By Sam Brasch
Colorado is second in the nation in electric vehicle adoption, thanks to affordable cars and generous incentives
More than 23 percent of new cars registered in the state this year were either battery-electric or plug-in hybrids.
By Sam Brasch
How the first ‘carbon-positive’ hotel in the U.S. is handling a dead tree problem
The developer behind Denver’s eye-catching Populus hotel claims it planted tens of thousands to offset its climate-warming emissions. The project highlights the challenges of counting on the forest to cancel emissions.
By Sam Brasch
Louisville launches the nation’s first EV garbage and recycling fleet
The fleet of four battery-powered trucks started roaming the city’s neighborhoods on Oct. 1.
By Sam Brasch
Colorado helped invent community solar. Here’s how it lost the lead and plans to win it back
Colorado came up with the idea for community solar gardens almost 15 years ago, but other states have gone further faster.
By Sam Brasch
Meet the electric baker trying to make Pueblo the home of climate-friendly challah bread
Elishevah Sepulveda is renovating an old filling station into an all-electric, kosher bakery.
By Sam Brasch
How scientific road trips through metro Denver found unexpected sources of air pollution
By a mobile lab in Commerce City and North Denver, CU Boulder scientists identified an unexpected source of urban air pollution.
By Sam Brasch