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When it comes to fundraising in Colorado’s crowded Democratic U.S. Senate primary, it’s John Hickenlooper up here and everyone else down there. The popular former two-term governor raised about three times as much as the other seven active primary candidates combined for the quarter that ended Sept. 30, though the two Democrats with legislative wins…

Colorado’s U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner is praising a funding increase for renewable energy in Colorado. The U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy announced Monday that $5.7 million in project funding will be awarded to the renewable energy laboratory in Golden. “This funding is great news for Colorado and our cutting-edge energy research community,” Gardner…

GRAND JUNCTION • The office building with the curved roof that by year’s end could be the headquarters of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management is in an area lined with corporate hotels and fast-food restaurants. Less than a mile north of the building sits Grand Junction Regional Airport, and beyond that, in a view…

The outdoor recreation industry is growing faster than the rest of the economy, according to fresh numbers from the federal government’s Bureau of Economic Analysis. Adjusted for inflation since 2017, the industry puts about $427 billion in the gross domestic product into the U.S. economy, the report states. Outdoor recreation spending grew by 3.9% nationally in…

Two of Colorado’s best-known advocates for vehicle emissions standards — one a former governor, the other the state’s largest environmental organization — were among the first to react when the Trump administration moved to block states from exceeding federal rules. When President Trump pulled the nation out of the international Paris Climate Accord coalition in 2017, then-Colorado…