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How the Trump administration’s public land orders could impact national monuments like Camp Hale

February 12, 2025 News & Media No Comments
In the face of uncertainty, local advocates are leaning back on broad community support for some of the protections granted to Colorado’s public lands Original post ➡️ Camp Hale, located between Red Cliff and Leadville, was used during World War II as a training base for members of the 10th Mountain Division. The monument could ...
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Commissioners OK biggest open space purchase in Eagle County history

February 4, 2025 News & Media No Comments
Original post ➡️ Preserving Three Meadows Ranch a ‘once in a lifetime’ deal The Eagle County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday approved spending $12.5 million in open space funds in a three-way deal to purchase the Three Meadows Ranch near Cottonwood Pass.EcoFlight/Courtesy photo The Eagle County Board of Commissioners Tuesday signed off on Eagle County’s ...
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Elk Valley mine named in report on Hyundai’s harmful steel supply chain

February 3, 2025 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ Alec Underwood/ EcoFlight For immediate release February 3The Elk Valley’s Line Creek coal mine has been named in a new report exposing environmental impacts and human rights abuses occurring in Hyundai’s steel-making supply chain around the world.The report, which was released by Mighty Earth with support from coalition partners including Wildsight, highlights ...
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Navigate Snowmass’ public data, information with new online tool

January 29, 2025 News & Media No Comments
Original post ➡️  Snowmass Base Village as seen on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, from the air with EcoFlight.Austin Colbert/The Aspen Times Snowmass Village has launched a new tool that allows the public to navigate public data and information in an accessible manner, according to a news release.The new geographic information system and open data portal, ...
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Money for the Colorado River Faces an Uncertain Fate Under Trump

January 28, 2025 News & Media No Comments
Original post ➡️ Funding from the IRA for more than 50 projects in four states and four different tribes was put on hold by the new administration, but experts are optimistic that it won’t dry up. The Colorado River flows through the Shoshone diversion structure on Jan. 29, 2024. A group trying to purchase Shoshone’s ...
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Buddy Program and EcoFlight raise environmental awareness

January 22, 2025 News & Media No Comments
Original post ➡️  Koda G. was among other youth to catch of glimpse of the number of oil and gas wells in the Rifle area from above. Photo courtesy of the Buddy Program This story originated from Sol del Valle and has been translated for our English readers.On December 10, 2024, the Buddy Program wrapped up the ...
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Interior Secretary nominee invited to tour Thompson Divide

January 17, 2025 News & Media No Comments
Original post ➡️ Sen. John Hickenlooper is inviting the newest Secretary of the Interior nominee to tour Thompson Divide — a 224,713-acre swath of mostly public land between Pitkin, Garfield, and Gunnison counties that for years has been a focal point for prospective gas drilling.Doug Burgum, serving as North Dakota governor from 2016-2024, is incoming ...
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Gordon: Wyoming energy poised for ‘rebound’ after weathering Biden policies

January 17, 2025 News & Media No Comments
Original post ➡️  This July 2024 aerial shot depicts a load-out silo and the Black Thunder coal mine in the southern Powder River Basin. (Dustin Bleizeffer/WyoFile, courtesy EcoFlight) Wyoming’s fossil fuel industries “have weathered the worst” under four years of the Biden administration, and now they are poised to rebound under President-elect Donald Trump, Gov. ...
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Nuclear waste, tax breaks for coal and oil top Wyoming Legislature’s energy agenda

January 2, 2025 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ A dragline stands amidst a cloud of smoke and coal dust after a coal “blast” in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin in northeast Wyoming. Courtesy EcoFlight The 68th Wyoming Legislature — the first body of state lawmakers controlled by a far-right Freedom Caucus — will consider a blockbuster slate of hot-button energy bills ...
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Colorado’s environmental efforts could be in grave peril

December 31, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ 2024 is likely to be hottest year on record. It’s no time for science deniers to be in charge of country’s future.  An aerial view of Assignation Ridge in the Thompson Divide area of Colorado. (Courtesy of EcoFlight) Some people say that the movement toward renewable energy cannot be stopped by a single ...
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