Posts tagged Environmental Law

• President Signs Exemption Allowing Navy to Bypass Environmental Law

  Shannon Weidemann | January 23, 2008 9:05 AM | 0 CommentsColorado Springs, CO Category: Miscellaneous
  

  A lawsuit was filed to stop the Navy from conducting high-power sonar exercises off the coast of California. Conservationists believe that the sonar can be harmful to fish and marine animals. An injuction has stopped the Navy from performing high-power exercises within 12 miles of the coast. President Bush signed an exemption last week to allow the Navy to bypass the environmental law. A...

• 12 BP Oil Wells Closed

  Staff Writer | July 30, 2006 10:35 PM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO Category: Miscellaneous
  

  According to the AP Wire, BP has halted operations at 12 Alaskan oil wells in order to investigate reports of leaking oil or diesel insulating agents. The wells are located at Prudhoe Bay, North Star and Milne Point and produced over 8,000 barrels of oil daily while in operation. Whistleblowers working with BP in Alaska reported the leaks to officials. Currently a grand jury is hearing testimony...

• Group Seeks to Protect Wild Buckwheat

  Staff Writer | July 30, 2006 9:31 PM | 0 CommentsGrand Junction, CO Category: Miscellaneous
  

  According to the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, environmental groups including the Uncompahgre Valley Association are requesting the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service make increasing efforts to protect the Clay Loving Wild Buckwheat, an endangered plant that grows only in Delta and Montrose Counties. The groups ask that the protected areas for this plant increase to include all of the Gunnison...

• Blunder at Merck's Biggest Production Site Pollutes Creek

  Staff Writer | July 16, 2006 10:08 AM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO Category: Miscellaneous
  

  An extremely troubling report in-Pharma Technologist.com indicated that government investigators are looking into the release of 25 gallons of chemicals containing cyanide from a Merck production plant in Pennsylvania into the sewer. It is likely that after the chemicals left the wastewater treatment plant it affected between two and eight miles of the Wissahickon Creek. While the incident...

• Grand Junction Solar Power Potential

  Staff Writer | July 07, 2006 9:34 AM | 0 CommentsGrand Junction, CO Category: Miscellaneous
  

  As officials in Grand Junction continue to push for oil shale development, Fred Pittenger, owner of the company Simplicity Solar, is looking to help people deal with rising fuel prices through another form of energy, solar power. According to an article in the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, Mr. Pittenger believes that solar power could be the future of Grand Junction energy as an organization...

• Colorado Springs Energy Rates Lowest in Colorado

  Staff Writer | July 06, 2006 9:39 AM | 0 CommentsColorado Springs, CO Category: Miscellaneous
  

  According to a report by Hispania News, the ACCRA cost-of-living index ranks Colorado Springs with the lowest energy rates in Colorado. A Colorado Springs resident's typical monthly energy bill was $121.56. According to Edward Easterlin, an official with Colorado Springs Utilities, the low energy cost in Colorado Springs, in part, is a result of an effective hedging program that helps to keep...

• City Officials Plug for Oil Shale Development

  Staff Writer | June 14, 2006 7:13 PM | 0 CommentsGrand Junction, CO Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Members of the Grand Junction Area Chamber of Commerce and Club 20 are calling for oil shale development to proceed in Western Colorado in a "thoughtful and deliberate manner." Kathy Hall of Club 20, a coalition of counties, says that this time "we want to see long-term, sustainable jobs."

• Utility proposes dam

  Staff Writer | April 14, 2006 9:03 PM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Colorado Springs Utilities proposes building a $10 million inflatable dam to prevent sewage spills into Fountain Creek. Under this plan, clean water from a nearby pond would be released into the creek to avoid harm to downstream water rights. Jerry Forte, Utilities Chief Executive Officer, believes the dam would be the best way to alleviate the waterway's environmental problems, saying, "It's...