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How Colorado Cowboys and Conservationists Joined Forces to Stop Drilling

September 18, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ The members of a self-described ragtag group had little in common, but their campaign could serve as model for future environmental efforts. The Bush administration started issuing oil and gas leases in the Thompson Divide area in the early 2000s in an effort to expand production on public lands. The drilling leases ...
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CuMo exploration project could become an Idaho mine. Environmental groups are worried.

September 13, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ Potential site may have minerals key to climate change fight. Environmental groups worry exploration could have unforeseen consequences.  The CuMo Exploration Project aims to search for minerals that could lead to a mine years later in mountains outside Boise. (Kyle Pfannenstiel/Idaho Capital Sun) For now, the CuMo Exploration Project is just that: ...
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Aspen-Pitkin County Airport misses out on round of federal funding

September 6, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ EcoFlight founder and pilot Bruce Gordon navigates his aircraft toward the runway on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, at Aspen/Pitkin County Airport. Austin Colbert/The Aspen Times Eight Colorado airports around the state are earmarked to receive millions of dollars from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to support infrastructural needs, the offices of Colorado ...
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Continental Divide Trail Coalition offers new tools for navigating Muddy Pass Gap

September 1, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ Nonprofit EcoFlight showed passengers on Friday, Aug. 23, 2024, the aerial views near the Continental Divide Trail that passes through Routt County as the approximate midway point of the more than 3,030-mile national scenic trail stretching from Canada to Mexico.Suzie Romig/Steamboat Pilot & Today The reroute of the Muddy Pass Gap on ...
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Another one bites the dust

August 29, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ San Juan Generating Station goes down; energy transition moves forward The smokestacks at the now defunct San Juan Generating Station go down in a blaze of glory on Sat., Aug. 24. This was the final resounding death knell for the power plant 15 miles from Farmington, which ceased operation in 2022./ Photo ...
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Wyoming coal heavyweights double down on out-of-state metallurgic mines

August 26, 2024 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 in July 2024. (Dustin Bleizeffer/WyoFile, courtesy EcoFlight) Wyoming’s two largest coal producers, Peabody Energy and Arch Resources, separately made moves recently to shift their focus away from the state’s ...
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Smokestacks demolished at northwest New Mexico power plant

August 24, 2024 News & Media No Comments
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The summer heat could cost the Great Salt Lake more water than normal, lose much of its year-long progress, officials say

August 23, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ Promontory Point during an EcoFlight around the Great Salt Lake on Tuesday, April 9, 2024. (Scott G Winterton/Deseret News) This article is published through the Great Salt Lake Collaborative, a solutions journalism initiative that partners news, education and media organizations to help inform people about the plight of the Great Salt Lake.SALT LAKE CITY — ...
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As both sides await BLM’s updated final EIS, Idaho ConservationLeague expresses support for Lava Ridge Wind Project

August 22, 2024 News & Media No Comments
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Water data from Pinyon Plain Mine shows spike in heavy metals

August 20, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ Courtesy | Bruce Gordon, EcoflightThe Pinyon Plain Mine, formerly the Canyon Mine, sits on the Kaibab National Forest, south of the Grand Canyon, near the Havasupai Tribe’s sacred mountain, Red Butte. WINDOW ROCK – The Pinyon Plain Mine poses a risk to the groundwater systems, according to the Grand Canyon Trust.With over 9 ...
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