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Climate change is sucking the Colorado River dry
2016-04-02 13:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateCentral: Even as the number of Americans relying on the Colorado River for household water swells to about 40 million, global warming appears to be taking a chunk out of the flows that feed their reservoirs. Winter storms over the Rocky Mountains provide much of the water that courses down the heavily tapped waterway, which spills through deep gorges of the Southwest and into Mexico. But flows in recent decades have been lighter than would have been expected given annual rain and snowfall rates - and...
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Colorado City Launches New Click & Hall Program
2016-03-31 22:10:00| Waste Age
The City of Thornton, Colo., has launched a year-round, appointment-based curbside waste and recycling service called Thornton Click & Haul. read more
Report: Colorado River To Drop As Much As 27 Percent
2016-03-24 10:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Frontera: Water authorities in the Southwest promise to compensate towns, tribes and other partners for coming up with water saving strategies that will boost the levels of Lakes Powell and Mead. The Colorado River and other Western river levels are expected to drop as much as 27 percent during the 21st century. Thats according to a climate change report released on World Water Day (March 22) by the Interior Department. The reductions in snowpack and runoff could mean a drop in water supply both for...
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Colorado considers bill to make it easier to sue Big Oil over fracking earthquakes
2016-03-18 23:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: If you were under the impression that ordinary people couldnt do much to hold Big Oil companies directly accountable for the environmental havoc they wreak, you definitely weren`t alone. But, if a bill currently making its way through Colorados state legislature becomes reality, Coloradans harmed by quakes linked to the fracking boom may be able to sue frackers. The bill, HB16-1310, would hold companies liable for physical injuries and damage to property caused by the recent spate of unusual...
Colorado Growers, Products Celebrated At State Capitol
2016-03-17 05:14:37| Agriculture - Topix.net
Hickenlooper, along with other state officials, lawmakers, ranchers and agriculture representatives, celebrated locally-grown products. There was also a cook off competition featuring locally-grown foods.
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