Tag: temperature
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Record-breaking heat interrupts recent rainfall in Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Temperatures throughout Colorado shattered records Friday as triple-digit heat rolled in after recent weeks of rainfall. “The whole state’s pretty toasty,” meteorologist Cameron Simcoe said. Cities along the I-25 corridor began seeing record heat early…
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Record-breaking heat interrupts recent rainfall in Colorado
Temperatures throughout Colorado shattered records Friday as triple-digit heat rolled in after recent weeks of rainfall. “The whole state’s pretty toasty,” meteorologist Cameron Simcoe said. Cities along the I-25 corridor began seeing record heat early in the afternoon on Friday. In Colorado Springs, residents endured temperatures that tied a 96-degree record set 38 years ago.…
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Colorado’s Air Quality Control Commission considers proposal for zero emission vehicles
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save 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…
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Colorado’s Air Quality Control Commission considers proposal for zero emission vehicles
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…
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Colorado environmental group seeks to reopen lawsuit on Longmont fracking ban
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save 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…
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Colorado environmental group seeks to reopen lawsuit on Longmont fracking ban
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…
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Polis to congressional panel: Climate change is ‘an existential threat’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save 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…
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Polis to congressional panel: Climate change is ‘an existential threat’
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…
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COPO SPECIAL REPORT | Shaping Colorado’s energy future
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save 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…