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Working within Colorado River’s 1922 water compact for 21st century focus of annual meeting

December 10, 2021 News & Media No Comments

Click here for original post Water managers set to talk about how to divide Colorado River Lake Powell, the second largest reservoir on the Colorado River, is seen in a November 2019 aerial photo from the nonprofit EcoFlight. Water thinkers are discussion concepts that could tweak how Colorado River flows are shared between the upper ...

A flight above the Grand Canyon and Little Colorado River

December 1, 2021 News & Media No Comments

Click here for original post The Grand Canyon Trust organized a flight over the Grand Canyon through non-profit EcoFlight. The flight took several members of the media, an author and a local film-maker near the Grand Canyon and over both the Little Colorado River and Pinyon Plain Uranium Mine on December 1. The Confluence The aqua blue ...

Senators urge increased production of fossil fuels in reaction to spiraling energy costs

November 17, 2021 News & Media No Comments

Click here for original article Hearing on rising oil prices comes days after critical COP26 climate summit Sen. John Hickenlooper questions an expert panel on rising oil prices in a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on Nov. 16, 2021. (Screenshot) Days after global leaders agreed for the first time to decrease coal usage ...

Plans To Dig the Biggest Lithium Mine in the US Face Mounting Opposition

November 7, 2021 News & Media No Comments

Click here for original post Resistance to Lithium Americas’ plans to dig an element critical to the energy transition at Nevada’s Thacker Pass shows that “clean” energy could face the same challenges as fossil fuels. People dance together at the protest camp at Thacker Pass, Nevada on Sunday, Sept. 12, 2021. Earlier in the day ...

‘A ticking time bomb for a mass die-off’

November 4, 2021 News & Media No Comments

Click here for original post Recent grazing decisions continue to risk Southwest Colorado’s bighorns. The edge of a grazing allotment permitted to Etchart Sheep Ranch turns into rugged San Juan Mountain terrain. A few years ago, one bighorn ram traveled for more than 60 miles across this area, which is not considered bighorn habitat by ...

EcoFlight Views: Fall 2021

November 2, 2021 Newsletter No Comments

Text Only Version Safe at Last October 8th 2021 was a monumental day for conservation – President Biden restored protection for Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments, among others! This is an issue near and dear to EcoFlight. We have provided hundreds of overflights for the tribes, press, scientists, and concerned citizens over these ...

The nation’s last uranium mill plans to import Estonia’s radioactive waste

November 1, 2021 News & Media No Comments

Utah says the White Mesa Mill isn’t contaminating groundwater, but its neighbor, the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, disagrees. Click here for original post On a warm July evening, Yolanda Badback described the noxious fumes that haunt the air where she lives. Unlike the fragrance of sagebrush or the sweet scent of juniper and piñon, the odor ...

PRB coal sales steady as Peabody nets $679M for 3Q2021

October 28, 2021 News & Media No Comments

Click here for original post An aerial view of Peabody Energy’s North Antelope Rochelle Mine. (Powder River Basin Resource Council) Peabody Energy coal sales from the Powder River Basin (PRB) held steady during the third quarter of 2021 (3Q2021) with total revenues from all segments exceeding $679 million, the company announced Thursday. This past quarter, ...

GUEST OPINION: BLM MOVING AHEAD ON EASTERN COLORADO RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PLAN

October 27, 2021 News & Media No Comments

Click here for original post A view of Table Mountain, Image courtesy of Ecoflight It sounds like the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is moving forward with their Eastern Colorado Resource Management Plan (ECRMP), which began in 2015, and once complete, will guide management for nearly 670,000 acres of public land, with the majority of ...

Learning about the Valley’s water from above

October 19, 2021 News & Media No Comments

Click here for original post OCTOBER 19, 2021 Salazar Center and EcoFlight supportWater Studies minor at Adams State Flying above the San Juan Mountains, over the pivots, small houses and tiny cows on the Valley floor, and feeling the rise and fall of elevation in my stomach and the jostling reminder of turbulence, there isa ...

Working within Colorado River’s 1922 water compact for 21st century focus of annual meeting

A flight above the Grand Canyon and Little Colorado River

Senators urge increased production of fossil fuels in reaction to spiraling energy costs

Plans To Dig the Biggest Lithium Mine in the US Face Mounting Opposition

‘A ticking time bomb for a mass die-off’

EcoFlight Views: Fall 2021

The nation’s last uranium mill plans to import Estonia’s radioactive waste

PRB coal sales steady as Peabody nets $679M for 3Q2021

GUEST OPINION: BLM MOVING AHEAD ON EASTERN COLORADO RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PLAN

Learning about the Valley’s water from above

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