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Created: Sat, 18 Jan 2020 01:22:42 +0000
Author: John Aguilar
Lakewood's new housing cap law could constrict the number of residential permits available to developers this year to a mere 156 new units across this city of 155,000, if a plan set to go before city leaders next week is adopted.
Read more: Lakewood unveils plan to limit new home-building permits to 156 this year
Created: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 13:00:31 +0000
Author: Bruce Finley
Metro Denver residents have been driving more, pumping tons of heat-trapping pollution into air that already violates health standards -- despite multiplying options over the past decade to ride trains, buses, bicycles, scooters and other alternatives.
Created: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 04:35:54 +0000
Author: Seth Borenstein
The decade that just ended was by far the hottest ever measured on Earth, capped off by the second-warmest year on record, two U.S. agencies reported Wednesday.
Read more: Earth just had its hottest decade on record
Created: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 03:43:26 +0000
Author: John Aguilar
With RTD down a total of approximately 94 bus drivers and 65 light-rail operators, largely because of high turnover, the proposed service cuts would act only as a partial salve to the agency's unsteady headcount.
Read more: Service reductions at RTD won’t fully address transit agency’s debilitating labor crunch
Created: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 19:30:14 +0000
Author: Saja Hindi
Colorado lawmakers debated Tuesday morning whether 38 climate protesters should have been arrested last week for delaying the governor's State of the State speech in the Capitol.
Read more: Climate protesters at Colorado Capitol shouldn’t be charged, Democrat says
Created: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 13:00:43 +0000
Author: John Aguilar
A mounting fight over what happens to a large parcel of undisturbed farmland in the middle of Westminster is set to break into the open Tuesday, when city officials hold the first public hearing on the proposed 2,350-home Uplands development.
Read more: Fight over Westminster farmland gets real with first hearing
Created: Sun, 12 Jan 2020 16:58:21 +0000
Author: John Spina
The Northern Hemisphere lost 3 billion birds, or 29% of the overall population, in the last 50 years. While the warming climate has played a demonstrative role in this decline – and will continue to do so with ever-increasing power – ornithologists in Boulder County have pointed to urban sprawl as a more immediate threat to the survival of the area’s native bird populations, without which local ecosystems cannot properly function, adding to the affects of climate change.
Read more: Boulder County’s populations of native bird species decline in the face of development
Created: Sun, 12 Jan 2020 13:00:39 +0000
Author: John Aguilar
Aurora last week gave a green light to the construction of potentially hundreds of houses less than half a mile from Denver International Airport's next planned runway.
Read more: Denver airport warns of development “creep” as Aurora gives blessing to new houses nearby
Created: Thu, 09 Jan 2020 18:49:32 +0000
Author: Alex Burness
Protesters urging climate action interrupted -- and then were forced out of -- the Colorado State Capitol on Thursday ahead of and during the governor's State of the State address.
Created: Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:11:08 +0000
Author: Bruce Finley
Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials announced on Wednesday that they've found evidence of wolves living in northwestern Colorado, news that comes days after state election officials placed a measure to re-introduce wolves on this year's ballot.
Read more: Wolves likely living in northwest Colorado, state wildlife officials say