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Without abdicating authority, EPA responds to Butler criticism

February 22, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ Water quality expert left role in November citing lack of engagement by federal agency The Gladstone water treatment facility at the heart of the Bonita Peak Mining District visible from a 2016 EcoFlight. The Environmental Protection Agency is responding to criticisms leveled by the former chairman of the BPMD Community Advisory Group, ...
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Satellite SBCD office to aid region in shift from coal

February 22, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post FILE PHOTO – Tri-State’s Craig Station power plant, seen here in January 2023.Amber Delay/Craig Press State Coal Transition Community funding will be used to create a Northwest Small Business Development Center satellite office to serve Moffat, Rio Blanco and Routt counties as local communities in that region look to diversify their economies.According to ...
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South Dakota was tardy with a gold tax. Can it afford to sleep on lithium?

February 16, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post A May 2023 aerial view of Lead’s Open Cut, which was part of the Homestake Mine. Although gold was discovered in the Black Hills in the 1870s, South Dakota didn’t impose a tax on gold mining until 1935. (Seth Tupper/South Dakota Searchlight, via EcoFlight) When lawmakers convened in Pierre during the depths of ...
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What a multi-million dollar price tag for Colorado River water says about the West’s unquenchable thirst

February 14, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ The Colorado River flows through the Shoshone diversion structure on Jan. 29, 2024. The diversion structure routes river water into the hydropower plant. Alex Hager/KUNC / EcoFlight In Colorado, the water that comes from our taps and keeps our fields growing can be in limited supply. That means heated debates over water ...
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Four more days

February 13, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ Flooded rice fields next to the Sutter Bypass, seen Feb. 13, provide habitat for migratory birds and food for salmon. | Camille von Kaenel/POLITICO SPOTTED IN THE AIR: Nonprofit EcoFlight hosted aerial tours today of flooded rice fields and wetland restoration projects in the North Sacramento Valley on behalf of a coalition ...
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How To Privatize a Mountain

February 12, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ In Montana’s Crazy Mountains, private landowners have restricted access to public lands, including in the Sweet Grass Creek drainage, shown here. PHOTO BY BRUCE GORDON/ECOFLIGHT As a wave of wealth sweeps Montana, landowners are blocking the public from public lands.We had followed the trail for a half mile when it ran headlong into ...
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Arizona communities grapple with the cost of a green energy future — more mining

February 12, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ The Faraday Copper project is an open-pit copper mine proposed along a strech of land in the Gailuro Mountains north of Tucson.EcoFlight On a breezy morning late last year, Roger Featherstone, director of the conservation group Arizona Mining Reform Coalition, hovered over a microphone attached to headphones and stared out of the ...
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The battle for the Aspen Idea: community or commodity?

February 11, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ Aspen, the tempest in a teapot, makes a relatively small footprint in the upper Roaring Fork Valley against the dramatic backdrop of Aspen Mountain. This quaint grid of streets has fostered an embattled community for decades as economic, social and cultural changes have wrought a series of identity crises, the most current ...
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In $100 million Colorado River deal, water and power collide

February 9, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ The Shoshone Hydroelectric Facility sits beneath a busy stretch of Interstate 70 on Jan. 26, 2024. The Colorado River District is poised to spend $98.5 million on rights to its water in an effort to keep the Colorado River flowing for farms and cities in Western Colorado. Alex Hager/KUNC Colorado’s Glenwood Canyon ...
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Film series ‘Legends of Aspen’ debuts Feb. 14 at library

February 8, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ Fritz Benedict’s enduring influence on Aspen will be explored in the “Legends of Aspen” film series that begins Feb. 14 at the Pitkin County Library. Courtesy of Aspen Hall of Fame The “Legends of Aspen” film series, a joint project of the Pitkin County Library and the Aspen Hall of Fame, begins at ...
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