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Colorado’s entry into the arena of zero emission vehicle (ZEV) regulation began in earnest this week as the Colorado Air Quality Control Commission holding four days of hearings on a proposed amendment to last year’s low emission vehicle standards. The ZEV regulations are a mandate from Gov. Jared Polis, whose first act as governor was to…

A Colorado environmental group filed a motion in Boulder County District Court on Wednesday to re-open a decision regarding a ban on fracking approved by Longmont voters in 2012. The motion was filed Aug. 14 by Colorado Rising, the main group behind last November’s failed ballot measure that sought to greatly increase the distance between…

BOULDER • Colorado Gov. Jared Polis told a congressional climate-change committee’s field hearing Thursday that he considers global warming to be “existential threat to our security, our health, our economy, our public lands and eco-systems and our very way of life.” Polis was the lead speaker in a morning of testimony taken at the University…

At a long table in Greenwood Village’s Il Fornaio restaurant, Charlie McNeil sketched out a diagram showing how the technology of drilling for oil and gas is making it safer, cheaper and more productive than ever. “It’s amazing what they can do now,” said the president and CEO of NexGen Resources, a Greenwood Village-based company…